Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four NRA-hating Schechter brothers were discovered to be broke, their home and their big poultry jobbing business gone. Last week in Brooklyn the press turned up another martyr to the cause of Rugged Individualism in the person of Joe Tipaldo, laundryman who fought New York's minimum wage law for women up to the U. S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, June...
...pick over 60 to 70 pounds in a day of ten hours and would therefore receive not more than 7? per hour for their labor, and in addition they would have to travel 70 miles a day to and from their work. These jobs would not provide a subsistence wage...
...case of families who need actual subsistence, of putting them on the dole or putting them to work. They do not want to go on the dole, and they are 1,000 per cent right. We agree, therefore, that we must put them to work-work for a decent wage...
...deed: new wage contracts upping pay 10% effective Aug. 16 and Sept. i were imposed on Italian industry by the Dictator's favorite department of Government, his Ministry of Corporations which adjusts and controls the relations of all Italian employers and employes...
Today 80% of the country's cotton spinning is done outside of New England. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with existing wage differentials. No management could by any ingenuity overcome the $2.56 average labor differential . . . particularly fatal to us, as we have no mills in the South. . . . [Our problems] are beyond the power of the management to solve...