Word: waging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Presidential election the Supreme Court has thrown a bomb into the lap of the American people which should do much to crack the wall of adoration surrounding the Constitution. The five-to-four decision invalidating the New York minimum wage law for adult women shows that from now on "due process of law" will be as effective in preventing the individual states from enlisting social legislation as it was when Congress tried to do the same for the District of Columbia in the twenties...
...House fortnight ago President Roosevelt listened to Walter P. Chrysler expound the theory of more jobs, better ways of mass production, a theory which the President had disavowed in his Jefferson Day speech. Last week Chrysler Corp. reinforced its founder's precept with examples by announcing a 5% wage increase for all Chrysler workers. Pointedly President Kaufman Thuma Keller hinted that in the case of Chrysler employes, at least, the benefits of mass production had not reduced their purchasing power. In the last three years Chrysler has boosted wages three times, beginning with a 20% increase in August...
...Westinghouse Electric announced a profit-sharing arrangement whereby wages are hiked 1% for every $60,000 increase in the company's monthly earnings above an arbitrary monthly base of $600,000. Westinghouse pay checks will be 10% larger if second quarter earnings equal those in the first quarter, which averaged $1,244,151 per month. The plan also provides for a 1% wage reduction for every $60,000 by which monthly earnings fall below the $600,000 level...
...demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that those industries which have been most successful in reducing costs of goods and services . . . have at the same time paid the highest wage and have continually raised that wage through evolution. It would naturally follow from what our President says that if the reduction of costs decreases consumption, an increase in costs should increase consumption. It is impossible to reconcile that philosophy with the past record and today's experience...
...income necessarily and measurably more comfortable than that of the unadorned college graduate? Or perhaps, after he has had graduate work and becomes a job-holder, there may be five years "with a reputable firm" on a pittance which is not by any stroke of the imagination a living wage. The architect is often a case in point...