Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Wednesday a building service worker claimed that before the Depression the standard wage for this type of work was $30 a week. Three pay cuts reduced salaries of many to as low as $24, he said, adding that the $2 average increase did not effect a complete restitution...
Rumors that the H.A.A. has awarded substantial wage increases to its building service workers were confirmed yesterday by University officials. The report originated in an introductory union rally for maids and maintenance men last week...
...which the President originally laid down for Congress last autumn contained five items of which one-anti-trust legislation-was left out of his message to the Special Session two months ago. This week, the President omitted another-Regional Planning-recommended for enactment 1) the Farm Bill, 2) a wages-&-hours bill and 3) modernized anti-trust laws. Of the first: "It is shameless misrepresentation to call this a policy of scarcity. It is in truth insurance before the fact instead of Government subsidy after the fact." Of the second (which the House sent back to Committee in the Special...
Union organizers voiced assurance, however, that in spite of inadequate wage compensation a contract would be willingly signed by Locals 186 and 112 if the American Federation of Labor were given exclusive bargaining rights for all employed in Harvard dining halls...
...Columbia University Employees Organization of Buildings and Grounds" has proved to be a dismal failure. Charging that officials had refused to deal directly with their representatives, levied unfair wage scales, and inaugurated an unfair benefit system, employees turned to outside sources...