Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision this week was a case involving a law passed by New York State in 1933 providing minimum wage standards for women and children. On the strength of the Supreme Court's 1923 decision, New York's Court of Appeals last March ruled the law unconstitutional. Its supporters hoped that, because it set up a commission to determine "fair and reasonable value of services," whereas the District of Columbia law had been simply a ban on starvation wages, the Supreme Court of 1936 would find it valid...
...seamen's strike in New York Harbor (TIME, May 25) last week fizzled out in complete defeat for the strikers. Offered a settlement by the Union heads which promised nothing except "no discrimination," the insurgents reluctantly agreed to return to work, give up their demands for a higher wage scale, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. Most admitted defeat. To save his face, Strikeleader Joseph Curran announced...
...repel good Americans who might want to go to sea. . . . We have made our case clear. . . . The idea now will be to organize our men on ships. They are going back fighting mad and with a job of education to per form among their fellows. When the Pacific Coast wage agreement comes up for renewal in September ... if the ship lines then hold out against our demands, the Atlantic Coast will be pulled with the Pacific in a general strike that will mean something...
...kind which countenances moderate social change, but demands that it be well-considered, ably administered, and effective in its objective. It is a hopeful sign of a revitalized party to find both Landon and Hoover contemplating amendment to the Constitution, if necessary, to allow states to enact minimum wage laws...
...chief talking point of conservatives in their attacks on the extreme measures of the New Deal has always been that the Washington government was trying to perform duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative...