Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington have been drafting and redrafting bills to set up such a partnership, but not until his radio speech was any definite light thrown on what the President himself had in mind. He called for measures "that will attempt to give to industrial workers a more fair wage return, to prevent cut-throat competition and unduly long hours for labor and encourage each industry to prevent overproduction." Getting down to cases, the President felt sure that 90% of the nation's cotton goods manufacturers "would agree tomorrow to eliminate starvation wages, stop long hours of employment and child labor...
...specific demands of the workers are that 1. The yellow dog contract be abolished. 2. A scheme securing mutual welfare by a lottery be abandoned. 3. The wage rate be determined by a ruling of the State Board of Arbitration. 4. Sanitary conditions be improved...
...gold content of the dollar. There is much to be said for this policy, not only for America but for the rest of the world; but we must be firmly resolved to maintain the relative exchange value of our own currency at a figure adjusted to our own wage levels." The Financial News looked at the idea of an exchange duel with the U. S. with some complacency: "We would stand to win an advantage. Despite the situation created by the abandonment of the gold standard in the United States, we will hold most of the trumps...
...week at least the next thing to it. A bill before Congress (TIME, Jan. 23) would prohibit the shipment in interstate commerce of goods manufactured in any plant where workers labored more than five six-hour days a week. Furthermore it would give the Government power to fix minimum wage rates so that manufacturers could not simply cut weekly pay along with hours...
...hours in any week, nor more than eight hours in any day. 2) By declaring a national emergency to make the rule apply not only to factories shipping in interstate commerce but to all industrial plants everywhere. 3) To give the Department of Labor power to fix minimum wages for men. women and children by localities (and the right to delegate this authority to local industrial commissions). 4) To limit the duration of the law to two years. While Mr. Swope, evidently promoting the liberal policies for which his Board Chairman Owen D. Young is famed, was practically assenting...