Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of himself by the enthusiasm for mass production. The famous occasion when Ford replied to the question, "Has there ever been a revolution in the United States?" with, "Yes, in 1812," is offered as a sufficient index of his intelligence. The Peace Ship and the five-dollar-wage are presented as the ineptitudes of naive paternalism...
...Railway Labor Act was invoked by President Hoover in a proclamation to settle a wage dispute on the Louisiana & Arkansas R. R. and the Louisiana, Arkansas & Texas R. R. Harvey Couch, one of President Hoover's R. F. C. directors, is president of the Louisiana & Arkansas, whose employes objected to a 15% wage cut. To a special board of settlement President Hoover appointed Chief Justice Walter P. Stacy of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Justice Julian H. Moore of the Colorado Supreme Court and Dr. Davis R. Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Free Trade is not dead!" he shouted, thumping his rubber tipped canes on the floor. "The tariff bill is unjustified by fact and experience. Its definite purpose is to restrict international trade. ... It wil increase the cost of living and lead to wage wars. It will impose heavy new burdens on the poor and it is useless as a bargaining weapon...
...players (in 1891, the payroll for 80 players was $90,000). Understanding musicians used to run Chicago's music union but now shrewd swart James C. Petrillo is in command. Said he last week: ''There is no question of a reduction of the wage scale. ... If the public will not pay for good music, it is Chicago's loss...
...letter to the Club, Eugene Gordon, secretary, describes the conditions prevalent in the Kentucky coal fields. "They are striking against a wage of 20 cents a ton for mining coal which sells for $16.50 a ton. Poverty is so horrible that men and women are trying to cover their bodies in rags, while disease reduces the very vitality that is needed to bear them...