Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Said Youngstown: "The signed agreement demanded of us could not be enforced by us because it would be a one-sided instrument whereunder the employer alone would possess legal responsibility. ... The wage rates requested have been and are in effect. The company's vacation plan is more liberal to the employes than the one proposed by the C. I. 0. The hours of work requested have been and are in effect. The company has been, now is and will continue to be willing to meet and negotiate with representatives chosen by its employes for all purposes of collective bargaining...
During the year past, Presbyterian pacifists worked to get two-thirds of the Church's 276 presbyteries to vote to delete from its Confession of Faith the following: "Christians may lawfully under the New Testament, wage war." Last week they learned that the repealer had failed of adoption by nine votes...
...trades and permitting longer hours on the payment of time and a half for overtime, it should not be difficult to define a general maximum working week. Allowing for appropriate qualifications and general classifications by administrative action, it should also be possible to put some floor below which the wage ought not to fall. There should be no difficulty in ruling out the products of the labor of children from any fair market. And there should also be little dispute when it comes to ruling out of the interstate markets products of employers who deny to their workers the right...
...Court's first tactical victory was in upholding the constitutionality of the State of Washington's minimum wage law for women and of the National Labor Relations Act. Associate Justice Roberts and Chief Justice Hughes, who made those decisions by aligning themselves with the Court's liberals, were credited with damping the enthusiasm of labor for a Court change. When the Court last week upheld the Social Security Act (see p. 16), it simply added one more reason for believing such a change unnecessary...
...Paulist Fathers' monthly Catholic World. Most professional-looking was the weekly Brooklyn Tablet, whose front page is not unlike that of the New York Times. Oddest was the Catholic Worker, whose editors style themselves "Radicals of the Right," call on employers to recognize workers "not as wage slaves, but as brothers of Christ, members of the Mystical Body...