Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal had his eye on Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whose Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce has the job of drafting railroad legislation. Senator Wheeler's first move was a conference with representatives of railroad operators and workers. Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage of the Long & Short Haul Bill, Government payment of full rates for its traffic on land-grant roads. Reiterating his opposition...
...Wages & Hours. "I am again expressing my hope that the Congress will enact at this session a wage-and-hour bill ... to insure a better distribution of our prosperity...
Almost as Mr. Broun spoke, in San Francisco, only metropolis where all daily newspapers have a city-wide Guild contract, publishers abruptly ended prolonged negotiations for a new contract. Having gained important wage & hour concessions, the Guild voted 243-to-22 to accept a new agreement shorn of "Guild shop" and "preferential hiring of Guildsmen" clauses. Meanwhile, in Duluth, the Ridder Bros, papers (Herald and News-Tribune) completed their first week of suspension, with printers refusing to go through a Guild picket line. The Guildsmen. 93 in all, struck when the publishers turned down a 24-hour demand to accept...
...Association of Railroads reluctantly indicated that in this event the roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation...
Immediate Proposals: 1) RFC to make available $300,000,000 for new rail equipment purchases; 2) ICC to be relieved of its present necessity to certify that roads applying for RFC loans are not in need of reorganization; 3) wage cuts; 4) abolition of the reduced rates on Government traffic over the so-called land-grant lines; 5) amendment of section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act to speed railroad reorganizations, possibly by a special railroad court; 6) the Government to guarantee or underwrite bonds issued in voluntary railroad reorganizations to insure their payment and thus expedite reorganizations...