Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation last week it found New York State going to work on another evil consequence of the Depression-the "sweating" of women and children. In a strong special message to the Legislature striking at labor conditions that smacked of 30 years ago, Governor Lehman had called for a Minimum Wage law. Declared...
...wholly adequate to meet the unprecedented task before us. But in the event that the Congress shall fail" in the speedy adoption of measures to meet the national emergency, "I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis--broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign...
...Simplified, strengthened, deflated and purified," Il Duce said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
Soon after the strike began, Briggs announced a return to a guaranteed hourly wage with a minimum of 25? an hour. Workers still striking last week demanded a minimum of 50? for men, 45? for women...
...Briggs difficulty had no sooner become quiescent this week than the industry had something new to worry about. In Detroit, 3,000 workers in Hudson Motor Car Co.'s body plant struck, demanding a 20% wage increase. Hudson officials blamed the leaders of the Briggs strike, closed down the motor manufacturing department and chassis assembling lines-depriving 3,000 more workmen of jobs...