Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specifically close their plants to union workers. He assured them he was not out to organize either industry or labor but to give both sides a square deal. On this basis the motor manufacturers signed a code providing for a 35-hour week and a null per hour minimum wage depending on the size of the community...
Signed by the President were orders for setting up a man-to-man partnership between himself and each of the country's 5,000,000 employers "to raise wages, create employment and thus increase purchasing power and restore business." Behind the orders loomed the threat of a new and near economic crisis. For weeks the Government had been ding-donging warnings about the unnatural increase in industrial production which had left the nation's buying power, as represented by low wages, far behind. The rise in wholesale prices General Johnson called "appalling." Putting trade codes through the Washington...
...depending upon the size of the community. These latter employers were also asked to run their offices and stores on a 52-hour week basis, thus forcing themselves to hire additional workers to maintain the schedule. Other features of the "partnership" called for: 1) no child labor; 2) no wage cuts to the proposed minimum; 3) no profiteering; 4) no more price-upping than was actually necessary. Fixed-price contracts for future deliveries were to be revised to meet higher costs. Exempt from the plan were doctors, lawyers, preachers, architects, pharmacists and "executive" employes getting more than $35 per week...
...Though this wage scale figured out at $14 per week, no employe was guaranteed a full week's work...
...centred mostly in the hosiery industry as a result of attempts by the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers to complete unionization of the mills. A. F. F. F. H. W. is an alert, enlightened union under smart leadership. During the Depression its members voluntarily took cuts in wages to help "closed shop" employers meet "open shop" competition (FORTUNE, January 1932). But now it was up against one of the most stubborn groups of "open shop" employers in a stubbornly "open shop" State. At Reading thousands of hosiery strikers peacefully closed half the city's mills. In Philadelphia...