The entire South had been sharply annoyed by a shortage of labour accompanied by high wages and, paradoxically, by an increasing number of idle Negroes.
The highly elaborate American machine industry of watch-making is a striking example of this influence of high wages.
The pressure of high wagesis an economic force more powerfully operative than any other in stimulating the adoption of elaborate machinery.
Have we any right to abuse the Negro for moving to the Northern states where he is tempted by high wages when we are not paying him his worth at home?
The first type consisted of the less responsible characters, the younger men, mostly single, who immediately responded to the promises of high wages and of free transportation made by labor agents.
Many of these, because of hard working and living conditions in the South, were forced to accept, ready, free transportation and promises of work and of high wages just as did the members of the first type.
It would be grossly unjust to other laborers, for instance, to pay this man 3 6/10 as high wages as other men of his general grade receive for an honest full day's work.
High wages do not prevent one Country from underselling another.
Now I reckon you understand that 'high wages' and 'low wages' are phrases that don't mean anything in the world until you find out which of them will buy the most!
What those people valued was high wages; it didn't seem to be a matter of any consequence to them whether the high wages would buy anything or not.
They stood for "protection," and swore by it, which was reasonable enough, because interested parties had gulled them into the notion that it was protection which had created their high wages.
By Mr. Buchanan, of New Jersey, declaring the investigation to have acted as a boomerang against the Democrats in that it showed a high protective tariff to be productive of high wages.
He invests his energy and skill, and if he makes an honest, wholehearted investment, high wages ought to be his reward.
High wages cannot be paid unless the workmen earn them.
The people are sufficiently used to high wages to make supervision unnecessary.
Workmen are not easily to be had in the backwoods when you want them, and it would be preposterous to hire a man at high wages to make two days' journey to and from the nearest town to mend your windows.
The increase of population, and the increase of food will generally be the effect, but not the necessary effect of high wages.
The significance of contemporary complaints of high wages is missed if they are interpreted as an indication of an exorbitant increase in wages.
It has been shown that the conversion of arable to pasture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries cannot be explained by the price of wool, but it may still be urged that agriculture was rendered unprofitable by high wages.
It is the day of prosperity, of continuous work for all, of high wages.
He had been a very skilful workman, and earning, as such, high wages.
Indeed they must have had comparatively high wages, to judge by their dress and the money they spent on regaling themselves.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "high wages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
