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...consecutive steel price rise since World War II. As soon as word came of another jump in the cost-of-living index, which meant an automatic wage boost for steelworkers, statisticians swiftly added the change to a mosaic of other figures on increased costs, including the industry-wide wage hike called for in the contract signed last year. Soon after, U.S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood announced a steel price boost averaging $6 a ton. Before the week was out, the nation's other steel companies moved to make Big Steel's increase industrywide, thus adding half...
...speech at the labor confederation, President Siles Zuazo pleaded, warned and quoted statistics to prove that austerity must stay. But as the workers' congress went on, labor sentiment still favored a general wage hike, with a general strike the alternative...
RAIL-FARE HIKE will send up first-class tickets by 15% on six eastern lines. Together with recent 5% raise, this makes total 20% boost approved by ICC in 1957, brings per-mile first-class rates...
Teaching follows, who may now draw up to three-fifths of the so-called "base rate" of $3,600 will be able to draw the same fraction of $4,000. This will mean a hike of $240 for those working the maximum allowed time...
Last year the move to raise first-class mail rates died in congress. The most logical way to raise the needed revenue is not, however, to hike letter rates but to increase charges on third-class advertising. Advertisers pay far less than their actual cost to the government and their flood of commercial trivia bloats the mail...