Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure Republican from Evanston, Ill. had objected on the grounds that "Congress should get down to work." By a minority of one, Representative Ralph Edwin Church thus forced the House to meet the following three days of its first week, despite the fact that, with no farm, tax, wage & hour, reorganization or regional planning bill to consider, there was no work for its members to do. Consequence of this move on the part of Representative Church had been a burst of publicity far exceeding any he had ever received before in his four years in the House...
...From the fact that officials are still negotiating with the local organizer, it can be rightly surmised that they desire a compromise in short order. What the terms of that compromise will be is a matter of speculation. As far as the union is concerned, it would probably accept wage scales only slightly higher than present rates providing that the University would grant a closed shop...
...favorable to the interests of the student and the University. It must be realized that, in reaching a settlement, Harvard is acting not only for itself, but directly for the student. Any manner of decision will affect the student body as a whole. If the University grants a further wage increase, it is almost axiomatic that the student board rate will rise accordingly--perhaps to the extent of an extra fifty cents a week, were the wage scale raised, for instance, to eighteen dollars for waitresses. With a relatively insignificant amount of surplus profit to spend freely, Harvard...
Josef Stefani, organizer and representative for this district thought the University "a wonderful institution, if only they practiced what they preached." He showed that the wage increase had been accepted by the workers but would have no legal standing with the organization until they were given exclusive bargaining rights...
...Portland furniture plants were actually being picketed for wage increases and several non-union barbershops were mussed up but these were conspicuous exceptions to local rule of labor against labor. By last week the daily din of brawling, shooting and window-smashing had reached such a pitch that the city revolted. Clamped down by Acting Mayor Robert Early Riley was a sort of mild martial law with a stiff midnight curfew and the entire police force on twelve hour shifts. Emergency authority was granted to hire more officers, buy additional arms and equipment and padlock the haunts of thugs...