Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This raised a howl from railroad labor. After an all-day session the Association of Railroad Labor Executives trumpeted: "The organized railway employes announce their unyielding opposition to every program for increasing unemployment . . . by either reducing work or cutting wages. . . . Every measure of so-called 'economy' which reduces the total income of the wage earners brings nearer the day when millions of dispossessed, destitute and desperate people will be goaded into seizing the food, clothing and shelter to which they have a right by the supreme law of self-preservation. . . . If the days of competition are ended, then...
...Economics." This attitude, based on Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), the Statesman-Pope, Pius XI, has elaborated in many a pronouncement. Denouncing Communism, rejecting Socialism, chiding Capitalism, finding Syndicalism (the Fascist type of government-in-business) too powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business; co-operation between Capital & Labor in some form of local unit resembling the medieval guild. Without anywhere attempting to promote these ideas by direct political action, and without reducing them to concrete proposals, Pius...
...white Judge Duff did not receive the attention that a new Chief Justice in the U. S. would have. Canada's Supreme Court is the highest court in the Dominion, but Canadian subjects still have the right to appeal from it to the British Privy Council. Liquor laws, wage and labor decisions that take up so much of the U. S. Supreme Court's time, are decided in Provincial Courts. Canada's Supreme Court, like Canada's Senate, has much time for contemplation...
Hearings at Albany were started on legislation to carry out the Governor's recommendation. Fifty organizations ranging from the State Federation of Labor to the New York Principals' Association went on record for a Minimum Wage law. Manufacturers' lobbyists who had staved off such a measure for 20 years admitted that they were now beaten, that the bill would pass this spring...
Packing girls, aged 13, in a food factory receive 1? for filling a dozen jars, putting them in-wooden boxes, lugging the boxes to the next department. Maximum daily wage...