Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget to look farther than December's headlines. Don't forget the Minimum Wage Case, the Wagner Labor Relations Act case, the effect of these decisions on the history-making Supreme Court Bill, on the history-making rise of Organized Labor...
...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
...There is another recipe," the Reichsbanker told the savings bankers with scorn in his tone. "It is to print bank notes, as many as are needed. Swift price increases would be the result, with wage rises lagging behind. Such 'compulsory saving' we have had before and called it inflation...
...staged a "victory" mass meeting. The victory was a contract signed in Chicago with The Pullman Co., and the meeting was a triumphant welcome by the Harlem porters for the returning Brotherhood president, A. (for Asa) Philip Randolph who brought back some $2,000,000 in pay increases. Minimum wage for train porters was hiked from $77.50 per month to $89.50. For maids from $75 to $97.50.* A basic 240-hour month was established, time-and-a-half for overtime provided after 260 hours, working rules & regulations agreed upon...
...Josephus Daniels, fresh from a conference with President Roosevelt, informed the Mexican Government that "Washington is interested in the situation confronting the petroleum companies." Fear that the U. S. $200,000,000 oil interests, the U. S. $500,000,000 mining interests will be squeezed out by taxation, higher wage demands, has been haunting American industrialists in Mexico during Cardenas' term. Taking the first important formal step affecting U. S.-Mexican relations in four years, the Ambassador warned that "anything that would disturb the status quo and good relations would be regretted...