124 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES S16NIFICANT CONTROVERSIES The widespread interest in and sanction of the “livingwage” principle was also attended by determined efforts especially on the part of representatives of labor organizations to secure concrete decisions or awards with this principle as a basis. From the signing of the Armistice until the year 1922, when the climax was reached, the movement for the practical recognition of the living-wage principle constantly grew in scope and intensity. It was vigorously advocated before all forms of wage-adjustment agencies, before State legislatures, and in the halls of the Congress. Through the daily press and periodicals, it was brought prominently before the country as an issue for national discussion. With the decline in the humanitarian and reconstruction sentiment, however, which was so intense after the war, and with the advent of industrial activity after the year 1922, the living-wage movement as an urgent issue disappeared, but the broad, fundamental support remained and will undoubtedly vigorously assert itself in a practical way in the future. As an issue for national determination, the living wage, as already pointed out, was brought forward most prominently in connection with wage arbitrations in the bituminous and anthracite coal-mining areas in 1920 and by proceedings inaugurated by all classes of railway employees before the United States Railroad Labor Board during the period 1920-1922, In the cases involving the mine workers, a living wage was requested for all unskilled and semi-skilled “day” men or time workers, with corresponding increases in differentials above these groups for skilled workers and pickminers. In submissions before the Railroad Labor Board, demands were at first generally made for a living wage by