Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employees, like carpenters, the University plan is more advantageous than the federal act. But as a matter of plain statistical fact the provision which the University makes for its lowest paid employees does not equal the pensions set by the Social Security Act for workers on the same low wage level. Thus a maid who receives a pension of ten dollars a month after thirty-five years under the Harvard plan, would under the Social Security Act receive twenty-five dollars a month...
Although the University makes every effort to supply its employees with a decent wage, their salaries are not always sufficient to provide against disability outside the scope of workman's compensation. As an unfortunate result of this fact, they are hard pressed to pay hospital bills when they take sick or suffer a minor injury. Under the provisions of this new service, employees paying a small annual fee will be provided with bed care, examinations, and routine nursing service. A slightly larger premium will extend these facilities to members of their families...
...labor costs rise too fast last spring? Many firms were in a position to raise wages in 1935 and 1936; it was questionable judgment to postpone wage increases until the last minute and then try to absorb them in one lump. During downswings people speak of cutting wages, but they seem to forget to raise them during recovery...
...corrected several of the causes of the excesses of the 1929 depression and that its policies have restored confidence in our economic system. Moreover, they argued, the administration's economic program has been a significant factor in the general upturn of business and has done much to aid low wage groups...
...Railroads' demands that the Interstate Commerce Commission permit them to raise freight rates are based largely on the contention that an additional burden of $35,-000,000 a year was added to their operation expense this fall by (1 the corporate surplus tax, 2 wage increases, 3 increased steel costs, 4 safety measures to comply with State and Federal regulations, 5 grade crossing projects...