Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your satiric handling of President Rodriguez' radio speech re: the newly-established minimum wage of 1½ pesos (42?) per day for the Mexican working classes, in your issue of Jan. 22, is inexcusable...
...cite these facts only to persuade you that the Mexican Government in establishing a peso wage is performing a greater good than you think. I was offered an hacienda in the State of Queretaro only last year, agricultural workers included, with the understanding I need pay the more skilled workers 60 centavos a day, the unskilled only 40. And I dare say even these would top some of the sweatshop paychecks in depression New York. MARION LAY Mexico City...
...remained a big problem all winter, is still waiting solution. The last A. F. of L. unemployment figures stood at 7,000,000. To this must be added the 4,000,000 CWA workers who, except for government bounty, would also be idle. 3) NRA was supposed by raising wages to increase the purchasing power of the U. S. but did not. The cost of living has risen as well as the payrolls of industry so that industrial wage earners cannot buy appreciably more goods than they did before...
...badly-run business end. Cried he: "Certainly no intelligent group of businessmen would tolerate accounting systems so unstandardized that a comparative study of costs is almost impossible. Certainly no commercial enterprise could exist with so chaotic a labor situation as prevails in our hospitals, where a completely unstandardized wage scale has resulted in an annual turnover large enough to wreck the average business...
...that no such abnormal bureaucracy as now exists in Washington would have been necessary. But many states are virtually bankrupt, and the funds now being dispensed by the National Government for the rehabilitation of other parts of the country come largely from the pocket-books of the taxpayers and wage-earners of Massachusetts and the other states of the Industrial East...