Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rent goes up," said he, "the steel man may hope to get additional pay to make up the difference-but he can't rent a better home." Nonetheless, Leader Lewis cheerfully insisted that the raise was due solely to fear of his organizing drive. He declared: "The wage increase and the re-election of President Roosevelt will do more to make workers conscious of their own power than anything that has happened in a long time...
...campaign language it quickly boiled down to a simple matter of contradiction. Said Republicans: "Wage earners, you will pay and pay in taxes taken out of your pay envelopes, in taxes added to the things you buy-and when you are very old, you will have an I. O. U. which the U. S. Government may make good if it is still solvent." Said Democrats: "Workers, you will get something for nothing. The boss will have to pay much more than you do, and when you grow old, we will...
...subject of a general wage boost, now being agitated by U. S. Steel's company unions, Chairman Taylor was silent. Consensus is that steel wages will be upped as soon as steel consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...
...will pass on to stockholders to avoid the levy, running as high as 27% on earnings retained in the business. Last week in Chicago the directors of Sears, Roebuck & Co. made their decision. After marking the company's 50th anniversary by voting a special $1,500,000 "Jubilee" wage bonus, the Sears board declared a $1.75 extra dividend representing an estimated one-half of the year's profits not needed for the $2 Sears regular. In December, when full-year figures can be estimated more closely, the directors will meet again, probably vote another extra of at least...
...want to say a word also to the wage earners who are finding propaganda about the security tax in their pay envelopes. . . . The fund necessary to provide that security is not collected only from workers...