Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week before, Administrator Hugh Samuel Johnson had "cracked down" on a Gary, Ind. roadhouse proprietor, a market owner and beautician of New Rochelle, N. Y., a Lowell, Mass, restaurateur and a Chelsea, Mass, dry cleaner. For violating wage and working time agreements, they were ordered to surrender their NRA insignia to their local postmasters. Under the President's order, General Johnson was now empowered to jail and fine such offenders, to "prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary to . . . carry out the purposes and intent . . . of this order." General Johnson's first prescription emphasized that...
Edsel Ford, always admirable in his restraint, has told General Johnson that he "will have no truck with collective bargaining", and father Henry insists that he has "nothing to say about the National Recovery Act". No one has proved that the Fords are violating the hour and wage scales prescribed by Washington, but they refuse to throw open their books to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, and this, since they are not members, is reasonable enough. General Johnson, however, is eager for a test of his much touted enforcement machinery, and there is little doubt that he will visit...
...less exclusive clubs is the Harvard Cooperative Society. In former days, that ancient and rather misinterpreted tradition of the Society, the Dividend, gave the organization a solidarity which dues-paying members of swankier clubs rarely felt. Nowadays the callow student regards his $1.76 annual salary as a mere wage for the trouble of eternal searching through his pockets for a coop card...
...except for phraseology, the Retail Code emerged from the back-room stage in much the same form that it went in. Wages & hours were changed so that a store might elect to operate in one of three groups, classified by number of hours per week that it remained open. But no store might operate less than 52 hours a week (except those that did so prior to June i). Maximum hours in each group ranged from 40 to 48, minimum wages in big cities from $14 to $15 a week. Lowest wage allowed was $9 for villages in the South...
...Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. testified in the Food Code hearing that the temporary blanket code had forced them to add 12,000 employes, the yearly payroll by $10,000,000. . . Woolworth last week was reported it was beginning to hire smarter, wage-worthy salesgirls who would actually sell, not simply make change, wrap packages...