Word: waging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...C.I.O. Steelworkers had already had their say on wages and pensions before Harry Truman's steel fact-finding board. In Manhattan's federal court house last week, it was management's turn. Up before the three-man board stood Inland Steel Co.'s tall, square-jawed President Clarence B. Randall. In crisp words he made the steelmen's case against the theory of wage-fixing by government. Said...
...time to learn how Hawaii's tiny legislature felt about it. By unanimous vote of the senate, and a 24-to-6 majority in the house, the legislators empowered Governor Ingram Stainback to seize the docks owned by the seven stevedoring companies, hire stevedores at pre-strike wage rates ($1.40 an hour) and get the ships moving, after listening to some side-of-the-mouth oratory from Party-Liner Bridges, the striking stevedores voted unanimously to refuse to work for the territorial government. Unless non-union stevedores could be found to work the docks, Hawaii's disastrous waterfront...
Even though they felt more confident, most businessmen hesitated to make long-range commitments until they could see the U.S. wage pattern. Nobody would know that until the steel wage dispute was settled. For both Steel and Labor, the crucial fight was for public support, and that would be decided in the hearings before the President's three-man fact-finding board...
While the Manhattan hearings held the spotlight, the Administration itself struck an oblique blow for a fourth round of wage raises. Under the Walsh-Healey Act it has the power to set minimum wages on Government contracts of $10,000 and up. Last week Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin used this power to boost the minimum rates in steel from 62½? an hour to $1.23 in the North, from 45? an hour to $1.08½ in the South.* Tobin cheerfully conceded that this would "have the tendency to raise wages in general...
...industry's average wage rate, $1.65 an hour, was already above the new minimum...