Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...significance of the strike, however, was seen rather in its probable effects on other wage-earners than in the walk-out itself. Many workers are admittedly underpaid and a general move for increases is now envisaged, as was sometime ago predicted by John Maynard Keynes, British economist. This move has already received a fillip by the Federal Government which recently raised the salaries of its employes. In this connection other able economists pointed out that Germany is short-sighted in that she does not grasp that raising the standard of wages also raises the standard of living and promotes internal...
...Women are underpaid." ? Miss Lela Lackey of Little Rock...
...excessively numerous and vote-potent in France, many of the Deputies (reputedly a majority) felt that they dared not vote against the measure last week, fearing to displease their constituents. As they listened to M. Poincare, he wooed and persuaded them against their wills, thus: ". . . That civil servants are underpaid compared to the pre-War standard is admitted by everyone. I myself would gladly vote to give them this deserved increase, were the moneys from which it would be paid not the Government's but my own. . . . "Today, however, we must choose between wisdom and prodigality with the public...
Here he can see the time-wasting fatuousness of congress, except in rare moments when driven by a vigorous personality; here he can see the president steering his middle course and saying nothing; here he can see underpaid clerks swarming from the grimy and red taped government departments; here he can see overpaid members of the now countless federal commissions making self satisfied and often irresponsible decisions reaching into the every day lives of the plain people of the land; here, in fine, he can delight his eyes with the foreign diplomats and the "dancing boys of the state department...
...substance of President Angell's annual report upon the condition of Yale University contains little that is new and a great deal that is just. The public may be tired of the oft-repeated assertion that teachers are underpaid but until the instructor is given at least a living wage such repetition should be continued. Eventually poor salaries may affect others than the unfortunate instructors and their families, fears; Dr. Angell. He foresees a steady decline in the quality of young teachers, who are not blessed with an independent income or an heiress in marriage...