Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of the fracas, what Chrysler executives wanted was a satisfactory new contract with C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, whose old agreement had just expired. Chrysler bargained for the lowest possible wage increase, also hoped to defeat union demands for 1) all-union hiring in the corporation's plants; 2) arbitration of plant grievances, 3) a voice in setting production speeds. Only issue finally disposed of last week was the all-union shop (which U.A.W. swapped off for a tentative compromise on arbitration...
...good news came just ten days after its potent Pittsburgh competitor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., announced a 6% November wage bonus, compared to 4% in October for its 45,000 employes. Westinghouse's bonus system, adopted in 1936, boosts wages 1% for each $60,000 by which average monthly earnings for the previous three months exceed $600,000, cuts them 1% for every $60,000 below this par. Westinghouse's profit-sharing payments to Nov. 1 this year...
...Japanese win their war, the United States will either have to withdraw its nationals from the Far East or be prepared to wage war, if necessary, to preserve their interests, he said...
...will then join in an open meeting with the Citizens' Union of Massachusetts at 8 o'clock when Thomas Eliot, New England Director, Wage and Hour Administration, and Orville Poland, Chairman of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee, will speak on the subject: "War, the Dies Committee, and Civil Liberties...
...replace Swope, G.E. chose big, 53-year-old Charles E. Wilson, who went to work for G.E. at 12 (wage, $3 per week), never left it, worked as office boy, shipping clerk, factory accountant, production manager, sales manager...