The sympathies of most men favor the wage-earner so strongly that they hesitate to express an opinion in any way unfavorable to his efforts to raise wages.
Their main object, however, was for a long time to raise wages, or to resist any decrease.
Indeed, the economic effect of improved appliances is logically and inevitably to raise wages.
If the eight hours day is to raise wages, it will not be by limiting production, but by improving it.
The association could thus hold that nothing could benefit the working class but an abolition of wages, and could yet, as it sometimes did, help and encourage strikes which wanted only to raise wages.
If the stronger organisation of labour is able to raise wages, and the higher wages are used to demand more and better articles of consumption, a direct stimulus to the efficiency of capital and labour is thus applied.
Ure from pointing out a little later the grave danger into which trade-union endeavours to raise wages drive a trade subject to the competition of "the more frugal and docile labour of the Continent and United States" (p.
It is precisely the dearness of products which will, by reflex action, raise wages.
Use the octroi, if you can, to raise wages, or do not use it to raise the price of commodities.
They have no right to raise the price of their wood by law, unless they, also, by law, raise wages.
Raise the worker's standard of living, he said, and the employer will be immediately forced to raise wages; no more can wages fall below the level of the worker's standard of living than New England can be ruled against her will.
To the public at large the prosecution seemed to rest solely upon the charge that the journeymen combined to raise wages.
Nothing was said about the illegality of the combinations to raise wages; on the contrary, the jury was instructed that this was not the question at issue.
The illegitimate attempt to raise wages by limiting the number of apprentices is the great abuse of trades-unions.
If employés withdraw from competition in order to raise wages, they starve to death.
They may do much by way of true economic means to raise wages.
They made no attempt to raise wages, to improve working conditions, to limit the number of apprentices, to develop skill and artistic taste in the craft, or to better the social or political position of the laborer.
It is not entirely clear why the guilds never tried to bring pressure to bear on their employers to raise wages, or to improve their position by means of the strike, or by other methods with which we are familiar to-day.
To raise wages by legislation is as demoralizing as to distribute doles.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "raise wages" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
