Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have said a great deal in general about the blessings of the Government's Old-Age Pension Law, practically nothing in particular about the tax feature of that act. Beginning Jan. 1 a tax of 1% per year will be levied on the pay of every U. S. wage earner, great & small.* An equal amount will also be collected by the Treasury from the employer. Example: A factory superintendent 40 years old makes $3,000 per year; his annual tax to begin with will be $30 (1% of $3,000); the factory management must match his $30 with another...
...practical purposes political dictator of the Islands, released 30 Sakdalistas convicted for their part in the 1935 uprising and issued an executive order raising the minimum pay of laborers hired by the Government to 30 pesos ($15) a month. Last week the National Assembly was considering minimum wage and maximum hour laws aggressively pressed by Philippine Labor...
...produce a thousand quarts of milk weekly requires 15-18 milch cows, $10,000 investment in farm, stock, and tools, two men working 14 hours a day, 365 in the year, day help in rush seasons. Weekly return on such a layout today, $40. Wage scale for union milk wagon drivers in Boston: $38 a week plus commission, three days off a month, two weeks' vacation with...
Favored by most laundries, the minimum wage law was chiefly opposed by hotels and restaurants. The New York State Hotel Association underwrote some $50,000 of Joe Tipaldo's court costs, but he spent more than $15,000 of his own money. When the case was won, Laundryman Tipaldo had $8,000 left, used it to expand his plant. Since many laundries kept the minimum wage, he prospered for a time by undercutting his competitors with what he saved on labor costs...
...there could be no launching, because 1,500 members of the Industrial Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers employed at the yard had most embarrassingly struck that morning, refusing either to work or go home before quitting time. They claimed their employers had failed to live up to the wage and working conditions sections of their contract. Back to New London went Miss Marsh...