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 IV. Post-war conflict and reconstruction

Collection:: Economics Books

64 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES stated that advances in living costs would permit only a 14 per cent. increase in rates of pay, but they had put this method aside, and, proceeding on the basis of the living- wage principle, had granted a general increase in wages of 31 per cent. The chairman of this Commission, Mr. Robinson, of California, had been a member of the American delegation to the Peace Conference at Paris, and a member of the committee which had assisted in framing the principles and standards of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations. It was undoubtedly this experience which influenced his attitude and, in turn, that of the Commission. Tue UNITED STATES ANTHRACITE COAL Mining COMMISSION A board of arbitration appointed by President Wilson, as the result of an agreement between the operators and mine workers, and designated as the Anthracite Coal Mining Commission, also convened about six months after the Bituminous Coal Commission had made its award, to pass upon differences then existing as to wages and work- ing conditions in the anthracite coal-mining region. More elaborate and exhaustive arguments and exhibits were presented by the representatives of both operators and mine workers than had been the case in the previous soft-coal arbitration. Especial emphasis was placed on the “living wage” claim by the mine workers in these presen- tations. They also put forward in very complete form the justification of a higher wage on the basis of “increased productive efficiency,” which marked the first instance of the use of this principle in post-war adjustments. They claimed too that both consumers and mine workers were

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