Word: wages
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fall the college fired 20 scrub-women. It had been paying them 35 cents the hour, the legal wage under a Massachusetts statute was 37 cents...
...nine years they had been paid the illegal wage. The college was informed of this, and fired the women, some of whom had been with it for 20 years...
Recently a group of alumni proposed to pay to each woman the $280 due her as back pay the difference over nine years between the wage paid and that which should have been paid...
...clarify its statement that the Scrubwomen case is a moral issue. Harvard University was within its legal rights in its peremptory dismissal of its employees; morally the action and its later ramifications are indefensible. There is little doubt in the minds of the University at large that the wages of its employees, while legally sufficient, are certainly below any altruistic or even humanitarian scale. The issue in the mind of the CRIMSON is whether there is any moral good in selecting one particular instance from the entire fabric of the wage question, and magnifying it to a position of paramount...
...casual observer, however, it will perhaps occur that the situation at Harvard and Yale is by no means unique. A survey of wage scales at other colleges would undoubtedly reveal conditions more scandalous than exist at New Haven and Cambridge. Will some busybody at Princeton please keep the ball rolling by informing us what a square yard of clean floor is worth down in New Jersey...