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...seven years of grater-voiced Bernard Samuel's regime as mayor, things have been quiet. There were mutterings but no major scandals. Then last fall city employees raised a clamor for a wage boost...
...Floor on the Downside. He proposed that wages be tied to living costs. His offer to G.M.'s 225,000 workers was a flat 3?-an-hour increase now, plus an 8? hourly boost which would increase or decrease as the cost of living rose or fell. If the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumers' price index rises, G.M. would add 1? to wages for each 1.14 points of higher prices.* If the index falls, 1? would be subtracted on the same scale. But there would be a floor on the downside; no more than 5? would...
...redeem the pledges, Earl proposed: 1) a nickel-a-bottle beer tax (highest in the U.S.); 2) a gasoline tax boost from 7? to 9? a gallon (highest in the U.S.); 3) a 100% boost in the state sales tax (from 1? to 2? ); 4) a $100 tax on slot machines (although they are illegal); 5) increased levies on natural gas and crude oil. Estimated yearly haul...
Another blow was a boost in admission prices. But mostly the fans grumbled to each other that baseball games in Ebbets Field no longer even looked very much like baseball: the games dragged, the pitching was terrible, the Dodger line-up was forever shifting and changing, team morale was drooping...
Three days later, help came from CAB. It granted T.W.A. a 110% boost in its foreign mail pay to $6,300,000 a year, retroactive to Jan. i. T.W.A. thus got $1,100,000, exactly what it needed to shoo the wolf away. But T.W.A. was in such bad shape that this was no guarantee that the wolf would stay shooed for long...