Senate Labor Panel Endorses Higher Minimum Wage Plan
Senate Education and Labor Committee recommends raising the minimum wage to 65 cents an hour and expanding coverage to more workers under the 1988 act. Proposals set 70 cents in two years and 75 cents in five, with mixed support from minority members and opposition from several Democrats. Debate eyed a likely Senate vote within 10 days.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Committee On Education and Labor
Tunnel
Delaware
Pepper
Florida
Tunnell and
Union Label Radio Address From L M Ornburn
L M Ornburn secretary treasurer of Union Label Trades Department AFL will speak on A B C nationwide network about a peacetime plan. The address airs March 21 from 9 45 to 10 p m Central Time originating from WENR Chicago with urged listening by labor members women auxiliaries union label leagues and families.
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Washington, D.C
ILNL
L. M. Ornburn
Trades Department
American Federation of Labor
American Broadcasting Co
WENR
Chicago
Red Cross Responds Rapidly to January Disasters
Destructive floods and tornadoes in early January caused 54 deaths and over 150 hospitalizations as Red Cross workers and volunteers mobilized across 11 states. The article highlights relief efforts, shelter, medical care, and rapid reconstruction plans, with a March rehabilitation target and a nationwide $100 million fund appeal.
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Red Cross
Agai
Vba
Mississippi Valley
Coast Guard
Aceee
Advance Weather Bureau
Paterson
New Jersey
New Chapter
Cross
Montgomery
Alabama
Salt Lake City
Disaster Service
American Red Cross
Red Cross Society
AFL Charges Favoritism In Stabilization Policy
The AFL accuses the government's wage stabilization plan of unequal treatment and invites strikes. Robert J. Watt argues the policy favors strikers, creating a privileged class, while the board seeks industry and area patterns for future increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL
Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
National Wage Stabilization Board
Robert J. Watt
Bowles
Trainmen Ignore Picket Lines in California Jurisdiction Fight
Edward R. Alberson, chairman of Local 850, urged members to move freight cars into canneries despite Teamsters picket lines in a dispute with the CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union. The Southern Railroad said some yards did not move, including Sunnyvale canneries, as Alberson stated there was no strike by cannery workers and the Brotherhood did not back the Teamsters.
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Oakland
Calif
ILNS
Edward R. Alberson
Brotherhood of Railroad
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
CIO Food, Tobacco and Agricultural Workers Union
East Bay Area
Southern Railroad
Sunnyvale
San Francisco
Alverson
Teamsters’ Union
Equity Rules Guiding Cross-Industry Wage Comparisons
The board outlines two types of inter-industry relationships for assessing wage inequities. It considers cross-industry equity by comparing wage-rate structures and product or management similarities, and by noting reconversion effects on wages across related industries.
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Senate Committee On Education and Labor
Congress
Ellendey
Louisiana
Fulbright
Arkansas
Taft
Ohio
Bull
Minnesota
Donnell
Missouri
Smith
Chicago Market CO
Pai
Watt
Mr. Watt
Truman
Social Security Act
Nonpareil Printing CO
Market St
Hamilton
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