Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three industries at one time. Mr. An drews announced, are all he will attempt to tackle at the start. Textiles will be No. 1, cotton garments No. 2, tobacco No. 3. The law requires the Administrator to set up a wage-hour committee for each industry, which will then fix that industry's floor & ceiling. Mr. Andrews had already called in textile operators, textile labor delegates and representatives of the consuming public. Correspondents learned that: 1) Chairman of the textile committee would probably be Vice President Donald Nelson of Sears, Roebuck & Co. (the man whom Franklin Roosevelt tried...
Establishing the Wage-Hour law's constitutionality will be a major assignment of the U. S. Attorney General this fall and winter. He will be ably assisted by the President's famed law team of Tommy Corcoran & Ben Cohen. Administrator Andrews' choice of textiles as the first industry to regulate is really their choice, as the best industry in which to invite the law's test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable...
...Otto Sternoff Beyer, who assisted Joseph Eastman when he was Transportation Coordinator. The National Mediation Board's record has been good-out of 407 cases in fiscal 1936-37, 259 were successfully settled; last year Dr. Leiserson arbitrated the dispute which got the railway unions a 7 ½% wage rise...
...present dispute promises to be more difficult because both sides are obstinately entrenched, management insisting that the roads cannot continue in business without reducing wage costs, labor relying on the Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
Scott paper is made at a slick modern plant at Chester, Pa., where scientific improvement is the guiding passion and a minimum wage of 60? an hour has obviated labor troubles. Chief reason for the company's success is its product, specially created for softness and absorptive qualities. Two other factors help explain why Scott's big Fourdrinier machines now work a 24-hour day seven days a week (one of them has done so since 1924). As pointed out in the latest Brookings Institution tome, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress (TIME, July 18), Scott...