"Wage earner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... promotes and develops the welfare of the wage earner of the United States, by improving the working conditions and advancing their opportunities ...
— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell
... the economic situation was better. But there was a drought, and the millers, depending on water to drive their mills, could not produce flour. There had been a sudden curtailment of Court and aristocratic expenditure, so that the Parisian wage earner was unemployed. The emigration had thrown many retainers out of their places. Paris was starving even before the summer months were over, and the agitators and political leaders were not slow to point to Versailles as the cause. That city, owing to the King's presence, was always comparatively ...
— The French Revolution - A Short History • R. M. Johnston
... into insanitary dark quarters, averaging four and two-sevenths persons to a room. These fifty-three families paid a total rent per month of $415.50, an average of $7.66. The average wage of these people is $2.60 a day. In not one of the 120 families was there a wage earner making the maximum wage of $3 and $4 a day. Some of the reports in brief were: "Wife and children living over a stable. Husband earning $11 a week." Three families in four rooms, "a little house not fit ...
— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott |
