Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
...Lasser's call was opportune. When the South opposed the Wages-&-Hours bill without pay differentials, the Administration argued that the South would never get anywhere unless it paid its labor better. Now was the Administration's moment to make good on that view. With President Roosevelt's approval, and to Mr. Lasser's delight, Mr. Hopkins announced wage boosts for WPA workers in 13 Southern States. Minimum pay went up from $21 a month for unskilled labor in rural districts to $26. In four states- North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma-all classes of workers were...
...been too high and would have to come down to assist recovery. Neither this oft-reiterated suggestion nor the fact that steel production last December fell as low as 19% of capacity appeared to dent the steelmasters' contention that prices could not be cut without a slash in wages. But Franklin Roosevelt was also explicitly on the record against wage cutting. In the face of reduced sales and mounting losses ($1,292,151 lost in the first quarter of 1938 against $28,561.533 netted in the first quarter of 1937), U. S. Steel on May 18 reaffirmed...
...plants were for the first time lowered to the Pittsburgh level. Announced reason for the change: "Increased production facilities and greater diversification of products" in these two steel centres. To the steel trade, however, it meant that Big Steel, sniped at by non-union independents since it made a wage contract with C.I.O. and pinched by their price concessions had finally abandoned its long time policy of playing ball, was going to squeeze them a little, possibly gaining in competitive advantage something to make up for the price...
...conversations with John L. Lewis and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, Big Steel last week said not a word, but the press reported that the company was trying to persuade Mr. Lewis to accept a wage cut as amicably as U. S. Steel accepted unionization a year and a half ago. Big Steel's subsequent action in cutting prices without cutting wages was thus more striking. It came also just as the Administration's monopoly investigation-whose first subject is likely to be Big Steel-got going. What was more, Big Steel's young Chairman Edward...