Word: white-collar
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...production goal from 100,000 to 400,000 cells a day. For this the new plant needed 1,500 full-time workers. In Madison, no such labor supply existed. RayOVac President W. W. Cargill decided to form a civic committee to mobilize bank officers, professors, corporation executives, housewives and white-collar workers with free evenings and leisure time. Fortunately, the work was simple. Anyone could learn some job in ten minutes...
...white-collar worker, traditionally the forgotten man of labor, was remembered last week by the War Labor Board. WLB granted a wage raise, averaging $2.85 a week to 14,000 agents of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. The raise is retroactive-in some instances, to October 1942. Altogether, the company must plunk down approximately $860,000 in back...
This decision was a big victory for the C.I.O.'s United Office and Professional Workers. But this case is not expected to set a precedent for general wage raises for the 11,500,000 U.S. white-collar workers. Chief reasons: 1) they are not well enough organized to get their cases before the WLB; and 2) the wide variation of salaries and commissions among companies and employes within companies makes the application of any arbitrary, overall formula almost impossible...
...Farmers and manual workers, skilled and unskilled, went to the polls in almost equal percentages. But the white-collar turnout was 15% greater than either...
...paraphrase Professor Hanson's quotation by Westbrook Pegler on Eleanor's solution to the plight of the white-collar worker, "What the white collar worker needs is a good laundry." Along this same line it is interesting to watch our room-mate struggle through his washing every Monday afternoon. He never can seem to get his paper collars to come out as well as his Kleenex does...