 | 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... | |
 | American Statistical Association - 1916 - 864 pages
...WORKERS. BY CHARLES E. PERSONS, Associate Dwctcr of the School for Social Economy, Washin9ton Univtrsity, St. Louis, Mo. Nine of the American states have recently...cost of living are presented in the following table: •Since Ihit paper was uritten the tenth state, Arkauax, bas |*»cd a minimum wage law. I 1.1 m S!-"... | |
 | 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.... | |
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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. 
