Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America's fabricating plant in the company town of Alcoa, Tenn. Promptly dispatched to Alcoa were three companies of National Guardsmen. The Alcoa strike was called last May by the A. F. of L.'s Aluminum Workers of America in an attempt to end the wage differential between Aluminum Co.'s Northern and Southern plants (a 63?-per-hour base rate in Pennsylvania as against 43? in Tennessee). The union's offer to arbitrate was turned down flat by the company. At week's end after William Green dispatched his personal aide, Francis T. Dillon...
...conditions in plants with C.I.O. contracts and hence acceptable to C.I.O. But as the striking steelworkers promptly pointed out there was nothing except a steel-master's conscience and the fear of John L. Lewis to prevent him from posting new notices any day with new and lower wage scales...
...Western Union made $5,258,000 against $2,243,000 in 1934. Last year it made $7,199,120. But whereas operating expenses in 1935 were actually less than the year before, last year they increased $6,706,000, including taxes and interest. Reasons: 1) three successive wage restorations by which Western Union employes received an additional $1,300,000 in 1936; 2) higher costs of materials used in repairs and replacements, the most obvious example being copper wire; 3) $767,000 additional taxes; 4) higher rentals for the 20,968 Western Union offices...
Tsar Kahane's appointment coincided auspiciously last week with the conclusion of Hollywood's most troublesome recent labor difficulties when, after six weeks of picketing and bickering, the strike of painters and scenic artists (TIME, June 14) approached settlement. Pending final wage adjustments, the strikers last week returned to work...
According to dour executive vice president Jonathan Eddy, the organization's professional, permanent chief who is satirically known to the membership as "the laughing boy from Connecticut," 47 Guile wage and working condition agreements are now in effect, where only seven flourished a year ago. The 47 current agreements cover 78 newspapers (many of them chainpapers). Membership in the twelve-month had increased from 5,716 to 11,112. The treasury had $231 on hand last year, $10,049 this year. A $20,000 war chest is to be collected. In one important aspect, however, the Guild remained unchanged...