Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found that before June scarcely an occupationally deferred man over 30 had volunteered. But beginning in June nearly 6% of all New Yorkers inducted were over 30; of these 87% were volunteers. Draft officials believe the main reason for this sudden scramble for uniforms is that the essential war worker, over 30, figures 1) the fighting is so nearly over that there is little chance of his being shipped out, and 2) even if he is, he will get good mustering-out pay and be eligible for any future soldier bonuses. Under the G.I. Bill of Rights law he will...
...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...
...coil. Said Krug: let industry unwind itself into peacetime production in its own way. "Our private economy has to carry the ball. . . . It's not WPB's function to make work but to remove obstacles ... so that the ingenuity of management and know-how of the worker can go ahead. . . . There'll be so much production of civilian goods after Germany quits it will be unnecessary to plan civilian items in detail...
Born. To Julian Denegal Steele, 37, Harvard-educated Negro director of South Boston's Armstrong-Hemenway Foundation settlement house; and Mary Bradley Dawes Steele, 36, onetime Back Bay socialite, child welfare worker; their first child, a daughter. Name: Emily. Weight...
Johnston wants business credited with its current contribution. Said he: "Business is now paying most of the cost of social security. But the credit is going to the welfare worker, the social uplifter and the politician...