Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Industry has as a rule given labor a grudging, insufficient wage," continued Bishop Anderson, "keeping it down by child exploitation, by suppression of legitimate organizations, and by other expedients, while at the same time huge fortunes have been amassed for the favored owners of the resources of production...
Last year U. S. Steel paid out $260,000,000 in wages and salaries. Taking reduced operations into account, statisticians last week estimated that the new 15% reduction will save the corporation about $30,000,000 in operating expenses for the remainder of 1932. Theoretically, $30,000,000 would about equal depreciation and depletion charges for the rest of the year should U. S. Steel cover its running expenses. Or it would be sufficient to pay bond interest and preferred dividends should earnings cover depreciation. On news of the wage cut. Steel preferred shares rose 10 points and the common...
Boost & Beneficiaries, Free to pick and claw as it chose, the House consented to a general 11 % cut in the Federal payroll but only after boosting the minimum wage exemption from $1,000 to $2,500.* Packed in the galleries were the embattled beneficiaries of this increased exemption, Government clerks who clapped and cheered with delight. President Hoover's alternative plan of enforced furloughs staggered through the year was summarily rejected by the House. All salaries of the Federal Reserve Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Farm Board, the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Veterans' Administration and Tariff Commission were reduced...
Biggest Danish industry is the curing, slicing, packing, exporting of bacon. Last week Denmark's big bacon men closed all the nation's bacon factories, tried to force their help to accept a 20% wage cut. Copenhagen papers accused "Fascist elements" among the bacon men of a daring, underhanded scheme to beat down wages by so disrupting Danish finances that the Government would have to unpeg the Danish krone, pegged at present to the British crown. Promptly Danish laborites adopted a peculiar slogan, shouted outside the locked bacon factories^ "Rather join a live Chamberlain* than a dead Kreuger...
...Caledonian economy of the Moral Law, Sin is paid wages, Death; but Virtue must be its own reward. Scotsman Cronin, in his story of the three-love-life of Lucy Moore, shows how Virtue, by seeking rewards other than itself, becomes a Sin, and gets the sinful wage...