Word: workers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the all clear sounded," said a Danish worker, "the people came out of the shelters and many were almost naked." The food supply could not be organized at once and people pounced on fruits and vegetables outside or inside shops. Thirsty people besieged a truck from a fish market and drank the water dripping from the ice inside the fish boxes...
...employes who think they can beat the withholding tax by making their bosses foot the bill (TIME, Aug. 2), New York's Collector of Internal Revenue coldly delivered an oh-no-you-don't. Said Collector Joseph T. Higgins: To the Treasury, an unmarried $40-a-week worker who bludgeons his boss into paying the $6.60 withholding tax automatically becomes a $46.60-a-week man, must report $343 additional income next March, pay at least...
...Michigan, where the tax clipped many a Ford, General Motors and Chrysler worker who had never paid income tax before, bond sales spurted, are now expected to top June sales by $8,000,000, a satisfactory 16% (five-sevenths of the sales are by payroll deductions). Example: in Detroit's ExCellO Corp., 15 employes reduced their war-bond deductions, 485 increased them...
...yellow dog I'd hate to have his standard of living fixed by this man Davis and the men who do his dirty work for him. . . . [Davis is] a rapacious, predatory Park Avenue lawyer on the loose in Washington against the American worker...
...employer absorbs the tax, this amounts to a wage raise for the worker, and as a raise it must have the War Labor Board's approval to be legal. Employers of fewer than eight workers are exempt from WLB rules. Little businessmen in the Manhattan area alone, reported the New York Times, have been forced to absorb taxes that will run to millions of dollars a year. In effect, thousands of workers are thus on a strike against paying taxes to their Government...