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...February, for the first time since the fall of 1953, the count of unemployed was lower than the same month a year earlier (3,383,000 v. 3,670,000). The average factory workweek was almost one hour longer than a year ago, and during January the average gross weekly pay rose nearly $1, to an alltime high...
Some maids said yesterday that they were satisfied with their new workweek, and the there was fear among many of them that demands for a wage increase would jeopardize their jobs...
...wave of hysteria should engulf the country simply because the highest court of the land has now defined the term "workweek" to include time spent upon the employer's premises at employer's request, including walking-time and time spent in performing various preliminary duties, such as changing clothes, sharpening tools, preparing machinery for production, and similar activities...
...Small, was labor. Employment, at 58,000,000, was "practically full," leaving an "unbelievably low" unemployed pool of 2,000,000 (which includes unemployables). Said Jack Small: unless there is an increase in the labor force, the only way production could be increased now was by 1) a longer workweek, 2) new plants, 3) new labor-saving machinery. He might have added: and harder work by everyone...
...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...