Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hint of how a bill may be passed. That work relief was finally enacted as the President wanted it was largely due to Vice President Garner's advice to the bill's managers to withdraw it from the floor when it was blocked by the McCarran prevailing wage amendment, reform their lines in committee for a second and successful drive...
Father Coughlin got some of his biggest applause when he shouted out against President Roosevelt's new relief wage scale: "Think of it-a meagre $50 a month for administrative work! . . . There is an American standard of living. My friends, if we are forced to see $19 or even $50 paid for such work in what we call a New Deal, then this plutocratic, capitalistic system must be constitutionally voted out of existence...
...almost tragic that the federal government has definitely been denied the right to regulate hours and to set a minimum wage for the whole country. Where there is free trade between the states it is a glaring injustice that certain sections of the country should be allowed to maintain a standard of living worthy of central Europe. While there are few Americans who want the government to go into business or to control the details of business, the sentiment that a uniform standard of living should be federally established is constantly growing in strength...
This week in an executive order President Roosevelt prescribed wage scales for the work relief program. Dividing the nation into four regions-Deep South, Middle South, Central States, Northern States-he established rates based upon five population classifications ranging from rural districts and towns under 5,000 to cities over 100,000. Categories of workers: unskilled, intermediate, skilled, professional and technical. Lowest pay will be $19 per month for unskilled rural labor in the Deep South; highest, $94 for Northern professional city workers. Pay will be on a monthly basis, with no deduction for interruptions such as caused...
Publisher Bowles, who inherited his publishing province from three successive Samuel Bowleses (TIME, Oct. 15), had long been quarreling with the local typographical union.* A wage-&-hours dispute had been settled only a month when last week Mr. Bowles turned up a new fight. He ordered one of his crack linotype operators on the News, Kenneth Irving Taylor, to quit his machine and take the foremanship of the composing room. Compositor Taylor, mild-mannered, bespectacled, member of the Springfield Board of Public Welfare, refused on grounds that his presidency of the local union forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles...