Word: wage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...responsible for trade barriers, but frankly, must we not admit that we manufacturers and producers of goods sold in all countries, we and the men and women of our employ, are the real force behind the trade barriers? We producers have labored to protect ourselves, our products and our wage standards, and trade barriers are the methods we chose. Alas for the futility of human hopes and even interests as we suppose them te be! . . . As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized. We all know now that...
Orders sped, and soon the highly organized committees of Capitalists and Laborers which represent these classes at the bar of the State (TIME, May 2) were told what they must do. Capital must cut prices; but would be allowed also to cut wages. Labor must accept lower wages; but would find the purchasing power of these wages increased by the cutting of prices. Theoretically this procedure was simple, sound. It was as simple and as sound as "daylight saving." But some skulls will not comprehend that a day is the same, no matter what the hours are called. Similarly some...
...farmers from an economic standpoint. Young men go into the country sections and do good work for two or three years as a sort of apprenticeship to moving into the city." He recommended: "A sort of traveling parson who would serve several missionary stations." And he advocated a minimum wage scale for rural clergy...
...There will be no "maximum" or "mini-~mum" wage...
...such intrigues, questioned Miss Stanton, proceed from "the arrogance of a race long accustomed to wage war, with modern military equipment, on backward people"? Miss Stanton clearly thought so, and spoke like a true Daughter of the American Revolution and granddaughter of the Civil War. "The descendants of the men who drove the British from this country do not relish this lack of respect toward the dignity of the American Nation." Literary, she paraphrased Shakespeare: "Time cannot wither nor custom stale the ineptitude of many British Ambassadors to the United States...