Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wages v. Dividends. Edward F. McGrady, A. F. of L.'s Washington lobbyist, argued in Philadelphia: "The wage earner has the same right to security of employment that the stockholder has to the security of dividend payments . . . Just as reserves are accumulated to secure dividends, there should also be guarantees that part of these reserves would be set aside to protect the worker in slack times. . . . Wage payments in industry in the first half of 1930 were below 1929 by $707,000,000 while dividend payments increased over...
...dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President's hands, 2) other Senate amendments to specify roadwork projected in Georgia and Alabama, and to authorize payment of the highest prevailing wage in any locality for the work to be given the unemployed. Then up rose Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah crying: "For God's sake, get something done to feed the people who are hungry!" Public and Press were making themselves heard in a like vein. Besides, Administration...
...Engineers (who have excavated 600,000 cubic yards of dirt and poured 12,000 cubic metres of concrete at Cheliabinsk since last July) waiting angrily for steel to erect the world's largest tractor factory. . . . Three hundred and eighty U. S. machinists making tractors in Stalingrad at a wage of $10 daily with cognac, wine and beer abundant...
From the outset, the Ford company met with difficulties. The concession he bought was an old one and contained certain clauses which angered Brazilians, made a political issue out of the enterprise. Suspicion increased so soon as he paid more than the average wage-scale. He encountered difficulties in exporting seeds from other Brazilian states to Para, where his plantation is. Few of the rubber trees planted have survived...
Chief of the difficulties however has been with native labor. If orientals could be imported, rubbermen think the project might succeed. As it is, even the high Ford wage-scale has not attracted more than 2,000 where 5,000 are wanted. Riots and strikes have broken out; hospitals have been and are busy. A writer in India-Rubber Journal (London) last fortnight said liquor consumption on the plantation has increased 1,000%, a cabaret has opened adjacent to it. Rubbermen last week said the Ford plantation's closing down was only a matter of days...