Word: wages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage-earning classes. In closing Mr. Woods spoke of vocation as a field for moral enterprise. A great opportunity, he said for the building up of humanity was to be found in the latent idealism which, although hidden in most...
...Wage Question...
...Berger has made a personal investigation of the wage question in the United States and has found that the average wage of the working man does not exceed $6.75, while in Lawrence, the textile workers receive less than $6 a week. These conditions exist in spite of the protective tariff which manufacturers claim is primarily to protect labor. Due to the high protective tariff, we are now in a condition of over-production, which forces us to compete with other countries in the world's market, and which is also responsible for our industrial crises, another of which Mr. Berger...
Women are Wage-Earners...
When men pride themselves on being the wage-earners of the world, they over-look the fact that in the United States alone there are over seven million women who are earning their own living. If fitness to vote is tested by obedience to the law or by the sense of responsibility to citizenship, women have proved by statistics of crime and by the equal suffrage elections in California that they are even more fit to vote then...