Word: white-collar
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...transitory and an unnecessary muddle. For the Western World already has the resources and the technique, if we could create the organization to use them, capable of reducing the Economic Problem, which now absorbs our moral and material energies, to a position of secondary importance." Meanwhile bankrupts and the white-collar unemployed can gather much information, some solace out of Keynes's canny croaks...
...Result. Five thousand Saxon jobless promptly volunteered. Many were of the class called "loafers on the Dole" (an average German dole-drawer draws two marks [48?] per day). Others were too young to draw dole payments, or disqualified. Out of all the clamoring 5,000 volunteers (many white-collar men and former clerks) the Government selected 120 Saxons for its experimental platoons, sent them...
Companies in other industries jumped to take advantage of Steel's movement. General Motors Corp. knocked 10%-20% off the salaries of its 25,000 white-collar men. United States Rubber adopted a five-day week as its normal schedule -first step of its kind to be taken by a big U. S. corporation. U. S. Rubber salaries were reduced 1/11 in adjustment to the new schedule. Aluminum Co. of America, controlled by the Mellons, announced a 10% wage...
Then there are multitudes of the "white-collared" class, who cannot afford private nurses and who cannot endure the nursing of free medical services. Elnora E. Thompson, president of the Nurses' Association, last week called white-collar folk "the greatest unnursed group of a community." To meet the needs of such "unnursed," the nurses are experimenting with service by the hour. Although the nurse thus is relegated to the catch-as-catch-can employment of an apartment housemaid, she may earn a maximum of $2 or $3 an hour...
...federal law as the final goal, is one of the planks of the Federation's platform. The text of the proposed law will be so prepared as to apply only to industry, not to the farm or home. Another aim of the Federation is to unionize wherever possible the white-collar workers--stenographers, book-keepers, and accountants. Green told of the union's never-ending fight for higher wages and better living conditions, and also outlined a national 48-hour law which would equalize industries throughout the United States, yet permit the payment of varying wages to suit the conditions...