 | 1916 - 948 pages
...the horse proper food and water, shelter and rest. I decided therefore to adopt a standard based on "the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living hi a civilized community." This was to be the primary test in ascertaining the minimum wage that would... | |
 | Canada. Department of Labour - 1925 - 1312 pages
...Higgins, president of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, in the Harvester case. He took as his standard " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilized community ". This he interpreted as applying to a family of about five persons — a man, wife and three children,... | |
 | 1922 - 546 pages
...laid it down in 1907 (in the Harvester Case)1 that the standard to be used in fixing wages must be " the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community." He went on to say: " Surely the State in stipulating for fair and reasonable... | |
 | 1921 - 770 pages
...the words " fair and reasonable," stated — " I cannot, think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community." In 1908 the State system of arbitration was changed by the establishment of wages... | |
 | William Guthrie Spence - 1909 - 678 pages
...reasonable ' must therefore be something else; and I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilised community. I have invited counsel and all concerned to suggest any other standard ; and they... | |
 | Anthony James Joseph St. Ledger - 1909 - 400 pages
...reasonable" must therefore be something else ; and I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilised community. I have invited counsel and all concerned to suggest any other standard ; and they... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1912 - 470 pages
...the water. ... In finding the living wage I look therefore to find what money is necessary to satisfy the normal needs of the average employee regarded as a human being living in a civilised community.' The actual amount determined on was fixed at seven shillings a day. No living... | |
 | 1913 - 558 pages
...Australia, who is now president of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court. He has repeatedly declared it to be "the normal needs of the average employee regarded...as a human being living in a civilized community", and he has made this standard the basis of his decisions in the disputes concerning wages which have... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1913 - 936 pages
...court decided to reject the "market value of services" as the determinant of wages, and substituted the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized country. It was adjudged to be better that industries which could not pay such wages should cease.... | |
 | National Industrial Conference Board - 1913 - 72 pages
...formulation of the principle upon which to determine this wage, Mr. Justice Higgins has invented the formula: "the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community."1 He has made this concrete by finding what would insure an unskilled workman food, shelter,... | |
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I cannot think of any other standard appropriate than the normal needs of the average employee, regarded as a human being living in a civilized community. 
