Word: waging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Guileless Senator Logan died, but his fleabite, the Logan-Walter bill, remained to threaten the New Deal with gangrene. Anti-New Dealers saw in the bill a weapon with which to assassinate such agencies as the Securities Exchange Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, the Wage-&-Hour Division. With them were plenty of other men who were honestly outraged by the New Deal's bureaucratic stupidities and abuses...
...seen the import business, utilities and banking taken over by Anglo-Saxon Americans, by the British and by Germans. He has heard English spoken on the streets as freely as Spanish; he has read street signs, menus and business correspondence in English. Finally, he has found that the wage scale for his own countrymen is lower than the scale for aliens. Having absorbed nationalistic ideas in Italy, where his brother, onetime President, sent him as Minister, he is determined to enforce them in Panama...
...hours after the Chrysler contract was signed, Hudson Motor also granted its 12,000 workers vacation bonuses. Two days later Briggs Manufacturing (automobile bodies) announced $40 bonuses and 2/ wage increases for 19,000 men. Other bonuses-of-the-fortnight: A & P stores, $1,500,000; International Shoe, $600,000; Glenn L. Martin aircraft, $500,000; Procter & Gamble, $500,000; Horn & Hardart (automats), $340,000; Royal Metal Manufacturing Co. of Chicago...
Businessmen were alarmed by labor's successful strike at Vultee Aircraft Corp., where workers had won a higher wage; by State Supreme Court decisions upholding the legality of a closed-shop contract. From their annual convention at Fresno, bigwigs of the Associated Farmers of California, Inc. scurried to Los Angeles to huddle with members of the State Chamber of Commerce, the San Francisco Employers' Association, the Merchants' & Manufacturers' Association. There they discussed ways & means of nullifying the Supreme Court decisions...
...Amalgamated Engineers Union met in Southport to vote whether to call a nationwide strike of 1,500,000 construction laborers. The issue was a threepence-an-hour wage increase. If the strike motion carried, it might mean the end of the peaceful building of the common man's Britain. After four hours of argument a 48-year-old grey-haired Welshman named Owen Jenkins stood up. Owen Jenkins said he had two sons in the service. "Could I face my boys if they came back, looked me in the eyes and said to me: 'You voted...