With wages and material as high as they are now, billions will be required.
Against liberal wages the railways do not protest, because they know that they can render safe, adequate and satisfactory service in proportion as their employes are well fitted and well paid for their work.
And in this manner have I served thee in thy house twenty years, fourteen for thy daughters, and six for thy flocks: thou hast changed also my wages ten times.
Yea your father hath also overreached me, and hath changed my wages ten times: and yet God hath not suffered him to hurt me.
The wages of a common operative here is twelve shillings (or three dollars) per week.
Wages were not so high as they had been in the good times before the famine.
The crops were good, the wages not bad, and he thought the people were very contented.
He informed me that the rate of wages about that part of the country was one shilling a day with food.
I was very much surprised to see men from Antrim, where the wages are much higher than here, come down to work in the west where labor is so cheap, and want of work the complaint.
We will go along together, and before your youthful wages are spent I shall light upon some means for both our maintenance.
In =1351= the Statute of Labourers was passed, fixing a scale of wages at the rates which had been paid before the Black Death, and ordering punishments to be inflicted on those who demanded more.
The landlords, finding it impossible to compel the acceptance of the low wages provided for by the Statute of Labourers (see p.
Notwithstanding the gradual decline of business here, rents and wages are extremely high, and the prices paid for every article of consumption are so enormous, that I should scarcely be believed if I should name them.
It followed that such persons could sue and recover wages for labor performed under compulsion, as Joseph Jarrot did.
At last her fine appearance and sprightly manner induced the proprietor of a large establishment to put her in the place of a girl discharged that day, with the wages of six dollars a week.
So, instead of getting money ahead, she at last was reduced to her wages as support, and nothing was said of their being raised, and she was advised to say nothing about any increase.
He found this practice very necessary; he knew that a skilled workman of good conduct is far more useful at high wages than a lazy, good-for-nothing fellow of doubtful character who would come for half the wage.
At the end of the year I shall lay my accounts before you; one of your number, chosen by yourselves, shall examine and audit them, and according to the wages of each man and the work he has done he shall receive his share.
But the men who would come from France and Belgium would not work for the wages we give our men.
In such a commercial undertaking, the first false step would be to raise the wages to more than the old system, for my conviction is that every industrial enterprise to be safe must work upon its own internal capabilities.
If, however, you think it better for your interests to take the higher wages offered by the company, I shall not enter into competition with men who have millions to spend; it would be a folly on my part.
She would have still more, only that on Sundays she gives a whole day's wages to the beggar who sits at the church door.
Their only resource, often, is to trust, in their turn, to the employment of their children for the wages necessary to support the family.
Domestic industry would cease to languish, because the ruinous competition of foreigners working at a third of our wages would be checked.
Last year there was a Committee of very expert investigators in New York which made a careful inquiry into the relation of wages to the standard of living.
There is the same inequality of wages and conditions as under capitalist ownership: many of the letter carriers and other employees are miserably underpaid, and the service is notoriously handicapped by private interests.
You are paid wages for your work, but you have no other interest in the establishment.
It is a valuable weapon with, which to fight for better wages and shorter hours, and every workingman ought to belong to the union of his trade or calling.
How much your wages will secure in the way of necessities is just as important to you as the amount of wages you get.
You are a workingman, a wage-earner, and you know that it is to your interest to get as much wages as possible for the smallest amount of work.
The fourth principle of Socialist economics is that the wages of the workers represent only a part of the value of their labor product.
But he gets his profits just the same, showing how foolish it is to talk of profits as being the reward of managing ability and the wages of superintendence.
If prices rise considerably, wages must sooner or later follow, and if prices fall wages likewise will fall sooner or later.
Under neither of these systems was there a regular system of paying wages in money, such as we have to-day.
Their allowance and wages are usually all velvet--an elegant vulgarism for surplus--and for my own part I have constantly to veto their little schemes for the betterment of my condition in order to have any condition at all left.
By coming she will receive an addition to her wages which will help her to endow a policeman with a moderate fortune some day when she marries him.
I thought that you called me to pay me, and that my wages were all counted out on the table.
There need be no apprehension of their being manned, whilst seamen's wages remained at the price they were, because men could not be got on the terms stipulated in the law for this purpose.
Any person reading the statements which had been furnished to them, would perceive that the business was not done by any contract, but that men were employed by Government, and regular wages paid to them.
Wages have been considerably raised, in some cases as high as one hundred per cent.
In strict economic language it would probably be called net profits, as distinguished from normal or necessary profits, which comprisewages of direction and insurance against loss.
Speaking of the establishment of minimum wages in the tailoring industry of Great Britain, Mr. Tawney declares that it "has given an impetus to trade unionism among both men and women.
In the latter establishments the additional outlay for wages might be fully neutralised by the diminished managerial expenses and fixed charges per unit of product.
Even so, this condition would be greatly superior to a regime in which the labourers were universally prevented from making any effort to raise theirwages above a fixed maximum.
The dragon is always Materialism in some form; the fearsome, irrepressible spirit of Unbelief, which wages war on human peace and blights the hopes of all mankind.
But except a few curiosity hunters and some idle folks who wanted higher wages and less work, and thought he might help them to get what they wished for, nobody listened to him.
The wages of sin is death"--if you doubt it read through to the end the story of any man who is headed wrong and keeps going in that direction.
Let us keep the wages of the working girl so near the danger line that unless she is splendidly fortified with moral stamina she may be tempted after she has sold her days to greed to add to her income by selling her nights to shame.
Lange showed shortly after Lassalle's death, the iron law of wages is founded upon Malthus' theory of population, a theory which Lange himself espoused.
Now if the iron law of wages be correct, it is impossible to abrogate it, even if we should do away with wage labour a hundred times over, for not the wage system alone, but every social system, must be governed by the law.
Little trouble have the wily priests in imposing on such victims, and so they get their hard-earned wages and set them propagating the delusion in mission schools, when mind and body need change and rest.
This thrifty Teuton had not lost much by the mishap of the afternoon, for a month or two of wages was due Pat, and this kept back would pay in the main for the injury he had done.
All that induces any of the operators to remain is the high wages they receive, which compensates them in a manner for the deprivations they suffer in the loss of society.
While they are fed and clothed by the Government, free, they hire themselves out at lower wages than poor laborers can work for, and be sustained.
Miners’ wageswere then ten dollars per day; common laborers seven dollars.
Steell took me with him and was the means of having my wages raised from the before stated salary of $19.
When there were two in a cabin together, one joined the volunteers while the other one stayed at home and divided the profits, be it working for wages or otherwise.
One remedy for this that has been proposed is that men shall pay wages to their wives.
The instruction and employment of women was also succeeding beyond her expectation, and the wages they earned approximated more nearly to the wages of sighted women than had been expected.
Prices rise and fall, quality is open to deception, wages have also to be adjusted, and manufactured goods must be sold wholesale as well as retail.
Subscribers and donors came forward in sufficient numbers to show that if blind men wanted work, both work and wages would be provided.
To obviate one of the difficulties arising from want of funds, the Bishop offered L40 a year as the wages of a sighted shopman, in addition to his subscription of L5.
This seemed inevitable at the time; but the mistake was that for many years the men considered the large sums paid aswages to be really their due.
Moreover, it was inexpedient to pay workmen as wages what was in reality a gift.
Now if wages had from the first been fixed on the ordinary scale, and an additional sum given as bonus, many subsequent difficulties might have been avoided.
The Income and Wages of small Annuitants, and Artizans and Labourers, insufficient to purchase Necessaries for their Support.
Owing to the high rates of house-rent and the difficulty of procuring servants, together with the exorbitant wages which they require, many married couples, and even families, reside permanently at the hotels.
The wages of carpenters and other skilled workmen vary according to their abilities; but they range between 7s.
The wages given are five shillings per diem, and in many cases "rations" besides.
Wages are high, and employment abundant; land is cheap and tolerably productive; but though a competence may always be obtained, I never heard of any one becoming rich through agricultural pursuits.
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