Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — A Day’s Wage. [ARTICLE]

A Day’s Wage.

It is interesting to note the definltion<4»f a living wage as formulated by the court of industrial arbitration of New South Wales in 1914: “The living wage is standardized as the wage which, will do neither more nor less than enable a worker of the class to which the lowest wage would be awarded to maintain himself, his wife and two children—the average dependent family—in a house of three rooms and a kitchen, with food, plain and Inexpensive, but quite sufficient in quantity and quality to maintain health and efficiency, and with an allowancefor the following other expenses: Fuel, clothes, boots, furniture, utensils, rates, life insurance, savings, accident or benefit societies, loss of employment, union pay, books and newspapers, train and tram fares, sewing machine, mangle, school requlsltiee, amusements and holiday intoxicating liquors, tobacco, sickness and death, domestic help, unusual contingencies. religion, or charity.”—National Geographic Magazine.