Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wartime production. After 1920 the A. F. of L. began to coast downhill. In boom times workers felt they did not need to belong to a local to get a job. With Depression they discovered that even their union could not provide them with work at a good wage. By 1932 U. S. trade union strength was back at its pre-War level and the prestige and power of the A. F. of L. severely deflated. Air-tight organization was maintained in only four fields-transportation (the "Big Four" railroad brotherhoods, outside the A. F. of L.), building trades, printing...
...England, fox-bearded, deflationist Montagu Collet Norman, served notice on his entire staff that their pay will be cut 10% next March and cut thereafter every March for the next three years. Thus, by implication, Governor Norman set himself more strongly than ever against a policy of British price & wage raising. Indignant clerks in the Bank of England, now being completely rebuilt at a cost of some $25,000,000, pointed out that despite this expense its last dividend to stockholders was paid at the fat old rate of 12%. The staff's cut, they estimated, will save...
Columbia University which controls or employs about 4,500 people is planning to accept the President's program as a consumer next week, and will take action on the wage increase and hour reduction schedule in September...
...that the entire Navy program be executed in government yards. Then was Presi dent Roosevelt able to sign and promulgate NRA's second code in six weeks, providing for a 32-hour week in shipyards doing government work, 36 hours in others, with a 35?-to-45? minimum wage scale...
...witness stand to fire a volley of criticism into other provisions of Steel's code. She had forearmed herself for this attack by going, in a black dress that would not show soot, right into the mills and blast furnaces at Pittsburgh to talk with employes on work & wages. Now before NRA she was an emphatic objector to Steel's limited concessions to Labor. With all the prestige of the New Deal behind her, she pointed out that the proposed 40-hour week would not help to re-employ 150,000 jobless steel workers, that the proposed minimum...