Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, it is possible that the whole altitude of the colleges in this matter has been a mistaken one; it is a conceivable chance that an increase in pay might give the employers in this case a greater range of material from which to choose. Considering the potential top wage, however, it is improbable that this would be the event. In general, the chance is that the goodies, now provided with suitable subject of conversation, will spend more of their time in interminable objection than in doing the work of their departed colleagues. And if the innovation accomplishes nothing more...
...Ruin! 'Wreckage!" "I totally dissent from the quantitative theory of money. I do not think depreciation of the dollar would permanently raise commodity prices. On the contrary it would so deprave our currency that it would bring ruin, particularly to the wage earners of the country and those on fixed salaries...
Briskly Henry Ford marched into his Highland Park plant, where part of the Briggs operation is housed. Three hours later Briggs posted a notice of return to a guaranteed hourly wage, abolition of "dead time." Old employes were given two days to come back. Then general hiring would begin. "We'll have to have bodies," said Mr. Ford, "even if we have to make them ourselves...
Soon hundreds of picketers were pacing before the Briggs plant, bearing such banners as: "We want a minimum wage or we will walk until...
...ideas, like cosmic rays, have a way of penetrating its ancient wall of detachment and starting little legal revolutions in its august consciousness. Many a sage observer believes that the Supreme Court today would reverse itself on child labor, would find a way to sustain minimum wage legislation...