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...unions, with one eye on the rising cost of living and the other on increased railroad revenues, whistled for a wage boost last spring. The five independent brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) demanded a 30% raise. Some 900,000 non-operating employes (shop workers, clerks, mechanics, laborers, etc.), members of 14 A. F. of L. unions, demanded a 30?-an-hour increase...
...featherbed" rules (requiring them to pay the operating personnel for work not performed), said that wages were too high, if anything. As for increased productivity, that was the result of management spending millions of dollars to improve the efficiency of equipment. The railroads also declared hotly that the wage boost would cost them $900,000,000 and send them to the cleaners...
...equivalent to an increase of 13½%) an hour boost for the non-operating employes, and one week's vacation with...
Fortnight ago WQXR's power was stepped up to 10,000 watts-the second boost within a year. Behind each increase is the desire of WQXR's founder and president, smallish, paunchy, deep-voiced John Vincent Lawless Hogan, to broadcast good music with maximum accuracy...
...Rare protection" is Hollywood's phrase for the kind of treatment Columbia has in store for its new star. Her salary, now $800 weekly, is due for a boost. She will also get star billing. At present she is scheduled to play opposite Charles Boyer in Tales of Manhattan, a lead in My Gal Sal, and the title role in My Sister Eileen. Then another musical with Fred Astaire...