The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1804651486

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-193069

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Lauck, William Jett http://d-nb.info/gnd/173237126

Title:: The new industrial revolution and wages

Place of publication:: New York

Publisher:: Funk & Wagnalls

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: ix, 308 S.; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. Acceptance of the theory of an adequate basic wage

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146 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES final report also sanctioned the living-wage principle, as follows :* XII—The full cooperation of labor is essential to the high- est prosperity and usefulness of the industry. The employees engaged in this occupation should have a living wage and humane hours of labor and working conditions. In January, 1920, in a decision establishing wages and working conditions of bituminous coal-mine workers throughout the country, the United States Bituminous Coal Commission stated that it had fully accepted the living- wage principle as the basis of its wage changes.? We have decided [the Commission said], to award as a substitute for the 14 per cent. increase authorized by Dr. Garfield, a wage increase that is considerably higher. In arriving at the present wage award we were guided by the principle that every industry must support its workers accord- ing to the American standard of living. The legislature of the State of Kansas, in establishing a Court of Industrial Relations in 1920, gave its sanction to the living-wage principle, in Section 9 of the law, as follows :2 Section 9. It is hereby declared necessary for the promo- tion of the general welfare that workers engaged in any of said industries, employments, utilities or common carriers shall receive at all times a fair wage and have healthful and moral surroundings while engaged in such labor. After its creation, the Kansas Court of Industrial Rela- tions gave an extended interpretation and sanction to this section of the law, in a decision of March 29, 1920 :* 1 Report of the Federal Electric Railways Commission, Washington, Gov- ernment Printing Office, 1920, p. 4. 2 United States Bituminous Coal Comm’n., Award and Recommendations, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1920, p. 36. 8 Industrial Court Law, State of Kansas—Act Creating a Court of Indus- trial Relations, January, 1920, Section 9. 4 Kansas Court of Industrial Relations, State of Kansas vs. The Topeka Edison Company—Opinion and Order—~—March 29, 1920.

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