Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Labor's good friend, Franklin Roosevelt, has a good Arkansas friend, Utilities Tycoon Harvey Couch, who owns an 863-mi. backwoods railroad line, the Louisiana & Arkansas. Last September some 400 of its engineers, firemen, brakemen and conductors walked out on strike. Demanding restoration of a wage agreement abrogated in 1933, they wanted the company to bargain jointly with their five union brotherhoods. President Peter Couch, the owner's brother, once an L. & A. fireman himself, insisted on dealing with them separately. He hired strikebreakers to keep in operation the railroad's service between Dallas, Tex., Hope...
Peaks into Valleys. What interests Big Tony Grzebyk and his fellow workers in the automobile industry far more than their hourly wage is their annual wage. A diemaker may ask and get $2 per hour for his skill. But if he can get only ten weeks of work per year he is worse off than the 50? day laborer who has year-round employment. Trouble has always been that automobile sales were highly seasonal, rising to tremendous peaks in April and May, dropping into deep valleys in November and December. Production and employment followed the same steep curves. This pattern...
Hours into Dollars. The 90?-per-hour wage of Plymouth's Big Tony Grzebyk is a little better than average for the industry (80?) His earnings for 1936, with special bonuses, will foot up to more than $1,800, which is somewhat better than average for steady automobile workers (about $1,500 this year). In 1931 Big Tony got ten days work in the spring, was laid off until June, then worked for the rest of the year, a total of some 31 weeks. The next year he was sick for two months and his work was even more...
Cars into Country. Most effective way of inoculating against unionism thus far discovered by the motormakers is to grant in some measure at least, what their workers really want. The union platforms call for stabilization of employment, which the companies are giving. They call for higher wage scales, which have been raised above the 1929 level, although the cost of living is still below that year. They call for annual earnings of $2,000 per worker. No small number of workers are already getting well over $1,500. They call for bonuses in proportion to profits. Chrysler voted...
...annual picnics, outings, field days. Chrysler has its choir, Chevrolet its glee club. General Motors office workers have a luncheon club, most popular speaker being Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen. General Motors plant workers go in for athletic clubs. Henry Ford's specialty remains a high minimum wage...