Secretarial practice

The new industrial revolution and wages

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Identifikator:: 1828236004

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249926

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Secretarial practice

Edition:: fourth edition

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: viii, 987 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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102 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND WAGES evil effects upon society and upon the laborer himself aris- ing from the failure to receive such a wage are patent. Undoubtedly a living wage is a necessity; the real issue is whether it is possible to determine the essentials constituting a normal standard of living, and whether the amount of money required to purchase these essentials can be calculated within reasonably exact limits. . . . Summing up the atti- tude of American arbitration boards, it may be said that they favor granting a living wage to the lower-paid and unskilled employees! PROFESSOR JOHN A. RYAN, CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA To-day the doctrine that the laborer has a moral claim to at least a decent living wage is almost universally accepted by all intelligent and disinterested persons, while the legal minimum wage has found its way into the statute books of countries in three continents.? FEDERAL JUDGE (FORMER U. S. SENATOR FROM IOWA) WM. S. KENYON Upon the question of a living wage Federal Judge Wil- liam S. Kenyon, when he was in the Senate and Chair- man of the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, on January 25, 1922, stated: We desire before closing to refer to the vital question of a living wage. It may be said that a living wage is a wage which, with due regard to time lost from unavoidable causes, will insure the lowest paid workers an income sufficient to maintain himself and family at a level of health and modest comfort and with a reasonable degree to security against death, incapacity, and the contingencies of life, it being 17. Noble Stockett, Jr., “The Arbitral Determination of Railway Wages.” Boston: Houghton Mifilin Company, 1918, pp. 172, 67-68. 2«A Living Wage,” John A. Ryan. New York, Macmillan Company, 1920, p. IV. J ————

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