Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capitalism. "Unionization, as opposed to Communism, presupposes the relationship of employment: it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profits. . . . The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against intrusion of alien doctrines of government. . . . Ordinary problems affecting wages, hours and working conditions, in most instances, will quickly respond to negotiation in the council room...
...offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also the singers of periodic opera in Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, the G.O.A.A.A. made little headway whereas the Guild, soon after its organization, appeared able to do better. On such grounds the Guild demanded G.O.A.A.A.'s charter. Last week came...
...watch Tommy slashes him with a pocket knife and runs away. Interspersed in this frieze of juvenile delinquency are adult characters whose unanimous disillusionment adds the last drop of poison to this bitter scene, notably Tommy's sister Drina (Sylvia Sidney) who is picketing for a wage high enough to enable her to move Tommy out of the slums, the young architect (Joel McCrea) who dreams of some day being able to rebuild the slums but at the same time wants passionately to leave them, the cop who thinks that arresting kids is a humiliating...
...scholars, the $2,500,000 Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, a dozen others) than a general Guggenheim picturesqueness. When Simon was accused of having bought his Senatorship, he answered blandly: "It is done all over the United States today." Discussing laborers, Sol philosophized: "I believe the wage earner is more extravagant . . . than the millionaire." As a first step in the direction of improved relations with his radical-minded miners, Dan launched a company union newspaper announcing editorially that "this is greatest era of pap, piffle and poison the world has ever seen." But solid old Meyer...
...group of experts to study the financial condition of the $500,000,000 foreign-controlled industry. Last week the commission ordered that the 17 companies, including the Royal Dutch-Shell affiliate, Aguila, controlling 50% of national production, and Standard Oil of New Jersey's Huasteca subsidiary, make wage increases and establish other workers' benefits aggregating $7,200,000 annually. The report called for establishment of the 40-hour week, increase of the minimum wage to 4.90 pesos ($1.38) a day, and setting up of a national mixed commission composed of company, labor, and Government representatives to adjudicate...