THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
Low Wages In America. One hears much about the high wages in America, hut there is another side, as the following extract from “Enginering”, shows: —“A report- issued at Washington, states that 15,000,000 Americans—wage earners and independents—are living tinder wage conditions which constitute an economic and moral peril. The lowest average wage for a whole group is that of railway trackmen —£3 8t a week of 47 r, hours. The average wage, moreover, is based on what the men would receive when working full time, whereas their actual earnings are usually lower. The minimum wages for seeleeted groups, such as labourers in soft-coal mines, are as low as 42s to 44s per week. Almost equally low wages are paid in machine shops, lumber” mills and paper-box factories.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1927, Page 2
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131THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1927, Page 2
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