Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress the President sent a message accompanied by a letter from Attorney General Cummings opining that since the Supreme Court had upheld the State of Washington's Minimum Wage Law (TIME, April 6), the City of Washington's similar law was, after 14 years in limbo, restored to the statute books. If Congress wished to revise the Act, it was time to take action before the District of Columbia Commissioners appointed a Minimum Wage Board. Promptly Ruth Carnett, waitress, claiming she has been paid $10.40 a week instead of $16.50 as required by law sued her employer...
...floor for discussion, "No political controversy, barring slavery, since Andrew Jackson declared war on the Bank of the United States, has struck so deeply into the roots of our political system." Holcombe did not believe that Justice Roberts reversed his stand on the recent Wagner Act and the Minimum Wage Act either because of the strikes, the Roosevelt landslide, or the Court bill, but sincerely believed that his change of mind was due to further study of the questions...
...strike against General Motors Corporation was not actuated by any fundamental causes that affected, in an important degree, the welfare of its workers. I am convinced that this is an unprejudiced statement of fact. ... As is very generally recognized, working conditions, including the wage scale and the hours of work, in the automotive industry and in General Motors, are such that the automobile worker stands as the most favored of all workers in American industry. . . . Then what was the real objective [of the strike] ? . . . The purpose was to obtain the maximum possible recognition, carrying with it the greatest degree...
...idle man and woman has been saved from starvation or worse by WPA's Federal Theatre is not doubted for a moment by Broadway, although many a Broadwayite wonders what they did with themselves before the Depression. That in 1936 all Federal Theatre enrollees received a higher annual wage than most legitimate Broadway players, who supposedly could take care of themselves and did not need the dole, was an assertion, sensational if true, made last week by The Billboard ("The World's Foremost Amusement Weekly...
...Billboard headlined its discovery: WPA BOYS IN THE DOUGH. The dough in which the WPA boys are is $23.86 a week. Since the pay must go on whether the show does or not, WPActors' annual wage is $1,240.72. To prove that hundreds of "legit" actors get less than this from private show business, The Billboard states and accepts two main statistical premises: 1) average life of all new Broadway shows in 1936 was 5.12 weeks; and 2) six out of seven actors are engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey...