And there could be no question but that underpaid workers were driven to lives of shame.
People were realizing the menace of underpaid working girls and unlicensed dance halls.
I suppose a girl MUST be underpaid and sweated," said Ann Veronica.
Does not underpaid labor, outside the mechanical arts, frequently improve its own condition?
Women are doubly sufferers, underpaid both as women and as unskilled workers.
The underpaid factory or store girl is subject to constant fatigue.
So the wage is supplemented by the girls (in the store) underpaid themselves, but comprehending the woman's need.
It was he who received and paid over the money wrung from the terror and necessities of underpaid and overworked teachers.
He had far more sympathy with underpaid curates than opulent bishops--indeed, he had little respect for the episcopal bench, if we except Temple and Tait.
The protective system is a barrier against the flood of foreign importations and the competition of underpaid labor in Europe.
Nor ought the wages paid for the work that is done here to be diminished by bringing you into competition with the underpaid labor of the old country.
We should protect our people against competition with the products of underpaid labor abroad as well as against the coming to our shores of paupers, laborers under contract, and the Chinese labor.
If some one tells me that labor is not sufficiently rewarded here, does he hope to have its rewards increased by striking down our protective duties and compelling our workmen to compete with the underpaid labor of Europe?
The disastrous effects upon our workingmen and working-women of competition with cheap, underpaid labor are not obviated by keeping the cheap worker over the sea if the product of his cheap labor is allowed free competition in our market.
Sidenote: Underpaid Women Workers] On behalf of unorganized labour, when it was unfairly exploited by the employer, Punch continued to lift up his voice in the old strain.
Women workers were not only slave-driven by employers and underpaid by the State; they were also handicapped by the competition of their sisters who only worked for pocket-money.
This question of underpaidwork is of course not found alone in the department store.
The same remedy will apply to overworked and underpaid workers, to insanitary shops and factories.
It is for the sublime struggle of the underpaid workman that our sympathies need now to be aroused.
We shall really begin to hope that the wretched condition of the underpaid clergyman is beginning to "take a turn," if we can find in Reverend hands a few mangles with "good livings" attached to them.
We are glad to see that the needlewomen have at last struck, and we wish another class of the overworked and underpaid would follow their example, the working clergy.
At any rate, the practical consideration is whether even a partial enforcement of it will not result in a marked benefit to great numbers of underpaid workers.
Labourers who are above the minimum wage level can, of course, save much larger amounts, and with less sacrifices than the underpaid classes.
Organisation Versus Legislation In the opinion of some labour leaders, the underpaid workers should place their entire reliance upon organisation.
Is this small minority under moral obligation to adopt either of these alternatives, when the effect of such action upon the great mass of the underpaid workers is likely to be very slight?
The second obstacle is the fact that only a small minority of the members of labour unions are drawn from the unskilled andunderpaid classes, who stand most in need of organisation.
A legal minimum wage is the most desirable single measure of industrial reform because it promises a more rapid and comprehensive increase in the wages of the underpaidthan any alternative device that is now available.
As a matter of fact, hundreds of thousands of the underpaid have become interest receivers through the medium of savings banks, real estate possessions, and insurance policies.
With the exception of a few industries, the unskilled and the underpaid show very little tendency to increase notably their organised proportion.
You must understand that the years of errand girl, night school, underpaid clerk have taken out of us a certain capacity for enjoyment which you women have had emphasized.
In the North also the last two or three years have witnessed increased activity in the organisation of underpaid trades.
In 1906 the Unions endeavoured to improve conditions for the underpaid workers, and drew up a piece-work list of minimum rates applicable to all the centres of the trade.
In August 1911 came a great uprising of underpaid workers, and among them the women.
But in most of the underpaid trades the Acts will have the same effect as a powerful {337} Trade Union.
Its operation is also entirely capricious, it can only apply to industries which suffer from foreign competition, and cannot touch those many underpaid forms of employment in which such competition cannot or does not in fact exist.
The Government have roused a spirit of self-reliance in these overworked and underpaid servants of a money-grubbing department, which no tardy concessions can destroy.
It was reserved for the victims of State parsimony, underpaid clerks and Government officials.
The hardships of the underpaid clergy and "ragged curates" are seldom referred to in this period.
These fellows get the money and the work is done by underpaid subordinates whom the world never hears of.
In those days to be a "master" tradesman meant to be master of the trade, not merely of someunderpaid drudges in one's employment.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underpaid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.