Word: workweek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
...that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within two years to 40 hours. It did not provide the one thing Mr. Cox and his fellow Southerners had liked about its predecessor: provisions for a differential to make the South's wage floor lower and its hour ceiling higher than...
Other newsworthy speeches were made by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who was booed when he opposed U. S. recognition of Russia; Robert Paine Scripps, president of Scripps-Howard newspapers who demanded a shorter workweek, a wider distribution of wealth; Frank Murphy, red-headed Mayor of Detroit, whose description of his city's $2,000,000 per month Unemployment relief brought forth great cheers. Present at the conference as a silent spectator, was Ohio's Democratic Senator Robert Johns Bulkley, whose friends hope to put him in the White House (TIME...