Word: wage
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...professor of political economy at Johns Hopkins has given notice that the American Economic Association, of which he is secretary, has received $500, to be awarded as prizes for the best essays on women as wage earners. The prizes will be $300 and $200. The essays must not exceed 25,000 words each and must be in the hands of the association previous to November 1, 1890. Any person is eligible to the competition. This series of prizes will probably be permanent. The next subject will be taxation with a still larger premium. The first competition was on the subject...
...Garrison next touched upon the wage question, and the encouragement which the tariff offers to smuggling and fraudulent invoices, and concluded by declaring the impending doom of the protective tariff, and the triumph of the principle of tariff reform...
...Walt Whitman," Mr. Lathrop to "Early rising and its influence on poetry." Mr. Newell to "The modern Puritan." Mr. Pillsbury to "Harvard College as foreshadowed in the Norman Conquest." Mr. Trafford to "The Class of '89," Mr. Warren to "College life, is it happiness or agony?" Mr Wright to "Wage fund and its influence on the human brain...
...Trusts today are in their infancy. The Standard Oil Company has begun to absorb all the interests connected with it, such as pipe factories, coal mines, railroads, etc. The result will be one great company controlling all industries, while the whole people will be reduced to the class of wage earners...
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...