Word: wage
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great solution for the social injustices of the day according to Mrs. Kelley is the formation of co-operative commonwealths. At length she considered the injustices done to the wage earners of the great New York public in the corporations, textile mills, and contracting concerns...
...Seminary of Economics. "Administration of the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts," by Professor A. N. Holcombe, in Widener...
...Boston's leading lawyers. Mr. Brandeis is prominent through his brilliant work as counsel in several cases of national importance, and is the author of several articles on the trusts, labor unions, and various pieces of legislation. He has recently been arguing for the minimum wage law before the Supreme Court of the United States...
...issue is clear. Allow the illiterate, with his low wage, his low standard of living, his tendency to congest in the alums, to enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations...
...work of professor Swain on Engineering and Transit Commissions; to the work, within the last week, of professor Bullock in connection with the State Committee on Preservation and Taxation of Forest Lands; to the work of The of Professor Holcombe as a member of the first Minimum Wage Board in the country; to the work of Professor Taussig, for years the recognized leader of Free Trade in the United States. These men are not the only examples of the live wires that connect Harvard with of the great affairs of the country. When he accuses the undergraduates of too little...