Word: waged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Prospect Union will open its nineteenth year of work in Cambridge next Monday evening at 744 Massachusetts avenue. The Union is an educational and social club for men, conducted by wage-earners and by students, and teachers from Harvard University. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education, through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers...
Will you allow me to call the attention of students to the opportunity, both for practice in teaching and in social service, provided by the Prospect Union? This organization has drawn together for many years our students and the wage-earners of Cambridge in a fellowship equally profitable to teachers and scholars; and the history of the Union is now long enough to demonstrate the value of its work. Among those who have there had their first training in teaching have been Professors Warren, Merriman, Coolidge, and Whittemore of this University; Professor Lovett of Chicago, Professor Peirce of Leland Stanford...
...question of wages under municipal ownership is another interesting question. It is evident from statistics that workmen under the employment of a municipality receive higher wages than those in the employment of a private corporation. Fraud, however, is more likely to arise if there are a large number of workmen in the employment of the municipality, and the direct employment of municipal labor is likely to increase corruption. The extra remuneration paid to city employees must be obtained by some form of increased taxation, which will tend to benefit this privileged class of workers at the expense of the community...
...Cambridge Prospect Union, which is conducted by wage earners under the direction of Harvard students closed a very successful season by a public debate last night...
Review of Reviews--"Why Not Savings-Bank Insurance for Wage-Earners?," by L. D. Brandeis...