Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers in U. S. industry now belong to the A. F. of L., whose total membership is short of 3,500,000. Fundamentally it is an association of craft unions dominated by skilled workers. These fear that their pay differential would decrease if they had to do their wage bargaining along with unskilled workers. Having fought the A. F. of L. Executive Council for two years from within, Miner Lewis lately quit to fight it from without (TIME, Dec. 2). Head of the biggest single A. F. of L. union, he rounded up seven other A. F. of L. unions...
...natural fear, normal fear; it is a synthetic, manufactured, poisonous fear that is being spread subtly, expensively and cleverly by the same people who cried in those other days-'Save us, save us, else we perish!' "I am confident that the Congress . . . is ready to wage unceasing warfare against those who seek a continuation of that fear. The carrying out of the laws of the land as enacted by the Congress requires protection until final adjudication by the highest tribunal of the land. The Congress has the right and can find the means to protect its own prerogatives...
...advantages in the low cost of labor, freight and taxes, and in few restraining laws. . . , "Despite attractive opportunities to liquidate, the management has carried or against what to some may seem sounder judgment and advice. ... 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...
...Professor Lloyd Lorenzo Arnold, University of Illinois bacteriologist, last week predicted: "Common head colds will cost the American people about $100,000,000 between now and Easter. . . . There will be 2,000,000 wage-earners who will be sick for at least eight days due to common colds...
Last week the Automobile Manufacturers Association reported that 3 20,000 workers in the automobile industry will this year receive $411,000,000, nearly 30% more than they were paid in 1934. Average wage per hour is 76?, higher than in 1929, and average earnings per week worked are $26.99. Passenger car sales in November totaled 215,000 units, biggest November in the industry's history. But by moving ahead the automobile shows and creating an end-of-the-year selling season, the motor makers have made it difficult to compare 1935 production figures with the output...