Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-31
BIG WAGE PROBLEM
ASPAY ADVANCES
How Much Industries Can
Stand Is Question Now
Facing Manufacturers.

Special Dispatch to The Star

special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, October 31.-Empia.
ers in general and the members =
the Railway Labor Board in particuA
lar do not oppose a scale of wage
which will enable workers TO Iivr
IN health or reasOnabl. comfort. Thu,
declaration was reiterated by leader
IN dozen lines of. industry TO-DAY
In discussing the effec; on war,
adjustments of the statement bl
members of the Labor Board on In,
so-called living wage"
What was opposed, they asserted
was the basing of wage scales o..
the arbitrary standard arrived at u,
mathematicians by budeeting the r.
qulrements of an imaginary famill
or hVe containing one bread winnr-
Both employers and employees mus
recognize. they stated. that in IL.
words Of former President. tn,
were confronted by condition, Ia.
a theory"
Plastersrs Get 500 Week.
Employers emphasized the f.
that they did not advocat" the radu,
tion of the American standard Of Ii
ing by citing the Inducements ofer,4
10 workers in Il score of lines. S..F
Francisco reported that bonus o..
| 500 was being paid some members ar
the building trades for taking jols
paving SN1 week. Detroit is o.
fering Inducements to AUTOMOBILE.
BODY paint finishers to go 10 wor
at Sl2 day. P!asterers I'm som.
instances in Chicago have piled NJ.
as much as $500 a week in WaE.,
and overtime
The standard of living. il Wa.
pointed out. merely is another nam.
Tor the consumption of goods lon
enough continued To becom. q habii
ana goods to be consumed first mus
he produced Some economists AN.
statisticians in compiling a basis io'
living wage hav. fixed sums rang
, ing from 1880 10 $500 "A year as tn.
minimum needed for family of fy.
with one bread winner. There ar.
upward of 100000 bread winners il
the country. according To one eNpcr-
on employment today. hut allowirlL
one bread winner to each of the -.
ooVoo families in the country wont,
relieve about l5.00004O workers frnr,
the necessity of providing towarr
family support
Wnge Claims Held Too High.
! This entire country. the riches, IL
! the world, produces annually betx.,-r.
% and % billion dollars from ri.
| sources, and employers stated tod.t-
II was obviously impossible. To pr.
wages on the Imaginary living wag..
I basis. as wages then would be in =.
/
mere is every evidence that -,t
present the general trend of wag.s
throughout the United states is IN
| ward. and that extreme labor shorr-
age exists in some lines which make
IL UNLIKELY that the scale will be low
cred Tor some time Ia come
The steel mills still are comhir.-
the country for laborers and consU,r.
ers OF steel are clamoring for d.
liverles. ManE large users of finish
| ed and semi-finished products hav.
| established representatives in ih.
Pittsburgh district TO expedite shin
ments. The middle west railroad
are increasing their orders fur
I freight-car equipment and loconu-
I tives, and electrical equipment cot
| Germs are doing a business 50 u. ,.
cent in excess of that of last year
i Cold weather and heavy advertise.
| programs are boosting retail trad.
| to even higher levels and DEPARTING
stores already have begun To add T.,
their sales forces in anticipation -,
holiday demand
! Public utility companies selliug
electrical power have increased their
output between IL and II per con-
in the last fortnight in many NiG,tt
! separated sections.
! Production schedules Of the Stud
| baker automobile company for III.
| fourth quarter provide for The PR
! duction of over 10000 cars and III
| company is expected to n-oducg 3.
! total for the year well in excess %.
10000 cars.
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