Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark summer of 1932, over the violent protest of the workers involved, President John Llewellyn Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America signed a contract with Illinois coal operators reducing the basic daily wage from $6.10 to $5. Whatever justification for this dictatorial procedure there may have been, the reaction of the miners was direct and immediate. A large group revolted, setting themselves up as the Progressive Miners of America, an organization with 30,000 members in the bituminous fields of Illinois and Indiana, which this year joined up with Mr. Lewis' enemy...
...fastest flip-flop ever executed by the Supreme Court was on the constitutionality of State minimum wage laws for women. In invalidating New York State's minimum wage law in June 1936, it created a legal "no man's land" from which both State and Federal legislation was barred. In March 1937, the Court adroitly reversed itself, to uphold an analogous Washington statute...
...results of that decision was a renewed drive for wage laws based on "adequate maintenance" standards as well as "value of service" and "prevailing wages." Of 22 States having minimum wage laws on their books all but six now take into account standards of living in fixing wages. Most of them have set up boards or committees whose duties include discovering how little a working girl can decently live...
...committee set up under the District of Columbia's Wage Board, having pondered budgets for salesgirls submitted by employers ($14.50 per week) and employes ($21.50 per week), finally compromised on $17. Last week the New York State Labor Department, which devises its own working-girl budgets, arrived at the figure of $23.30 per week for a woman living alone. For a girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week...
...wage increase through and we'll leave," was the gist of the response last August when a committee backed by Mexico's President Lazaro Cardenas ordered 17 U. S. and other foreign oil companies to pay a wage increase of some...