Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio speech last month General Hugh Samuel Johnson, Industrial Recovery Administrator, gave that measure for the maximum work and minimum wage of unskilled labor in the trade codes then being prepared by U. S. Industry. Last fortnight the cotton textile code was approved with a 40-hour week and a $12 wage. When he was deluged last week with other codes submitted for approval, General Johnson discovered that none of them came up to his standard. Undaunted, he scheduled a mass of "gold fish bowl" hearings for this week and next...
...that purpose-an "open shop" provision which the American Federation of Labor threatened to fight. Steel prices were to be based on new regional quotations instead of the old "Pittsburgh plus" system. Simultaneously eleven steel companies headed by Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Republic and Carnegie announced a 15% wage increase at once for about 100,000 workers. Soft Coal. This code represented only the unionized one-quarter of the bituminous industry, promised much controversy. Provided was an eight-hour day and an average 36-hour week for the year. Minimum pay: $5 per day for underground workers...
...launch her national drive against Child Labor. Last week Florence Kelley's grave at Brooklin, Me. was more than a year old but in Washington her cause marched on to score its biggest triumph. Cotton textile manufacturers were appearing before Industrial Recovery Administrator Johnson to get their work & wages code approved. Labor was pounding them hard for proposing to pay their employes too little ($10-$11 per week), work them too long (40 hours per week). Even the President of the U. S. last May had pointed a damning finger at them for using children in their mills. Administrator...
...perhaps most of all, people wanted to know his idea of a minimum wage. Said he: "The cost of living differs in different regions. . . . The question cannot be answered by any single inflexible rule. . . . But under present conditions and as far as the lowest priced class of workers are concerned, an average of about 32 hours a week at not less than 45? an hour would do this...
...submission to the President for final approval. First "goldfish" to go on exhibit in the Washington bowl was the cotton textile industry. Week before a cotton textile code had been turned in to General Johnson. He thought the industry had done "a very beautiful job" even though its minimum wage fell $4.40 per week short of General Johnson's own standard and its maximum week was eight hours longer than that he specified over the radio. Hearings on this cotton code were to begin this week and were counted on to develop the procedure for the whole recovery administration...