Word: earners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wage Policy. In adopting a report on wages the Federation for the first time in its history adopted a productivity theory of wages. It has had "a living wage" and other wage war cries, but its declaration last week would seem to place the wage earner side by side with the employer in the effort to increase production-provided labor can get the benefit of the increase...
Twelve thousand million is twelve billion. Or, assuming there are 30 million people earning a living in the U. S., it is about $400 per wage earner...
...repudiated pledges. . . . There never was such a flagrant betrayal of party promises, such a complete failure to solve present-day problems. . . . Not only have they attempted to increase the cost of living . . . but this Ad ministration has given encouragement to every effort to reduce the wages of the wage-earner and to in crease the profits of the conscience less gouger...
Labor Conditions. On the whole, working men were better housed and better clothed than their comrades in England. During his many visits to industrial centres he had frequently inquired how the well-being of the wage-earner had been achieved. He always received one answer: "Well, we 'believe in keeping a big share of the home market for our own people." Turning to J. R. Clynes, Lord Privy Seal, he urged the Government to take care of the working people and to see if there were not something which it could learn from...
...blue books" will be examined and graded at Marine headquarters and mailed back to him. From architecture and advertising down to plumbing and steam-fitting, the courses are designed for the purpose of fitting the marine for some advantageous employment as a non-military wage-earner in his later years...