Word: earner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Considering the general interest in the tariff question, a strangely small audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to listen to the debate on "Resolved, that a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner." The discussion was opened for the affirmative by Mr. C. M. Thayer, '89. He said: We can see what would result from a reduction of the tariff by taking the wire industry as an example. In this country about ninety per cent. of the cost of production goes to the laborer. The raw material costs about as much as it does abroad...
Subject: "Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner...
Subject: "Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner...
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Resolved, That a reduction of the tariff would hurt the wage-earner...