WAGES

Related Subjects: Business, Depression, Employment, Industry, Inflation, Labor, Payment, Union, Work

1. What have workers wanted through the ages?
   Shorter hours and higher wages.
   What have employers wanted for aye?
   Longer hours and lower pay.—F. P. A., The Diary, of Our Own Samuel Pepys
   

2. The labourer is worthy of his hire.—Bible, Luke 10:7
   

3. "A fair day's-wages for a fair day's-work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.—CARLYLE, Past and Present
   

4. Question: Do you consider ten dollars a week enough for a longshoreman with a family to support?
   
   Answer: If that's all he can get, and he takes it, I should say it's enough.—J. P. MORGAN, Before the U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations.
   

5. From a bad paymaster get what you can.—Proverb
   

6. A good paymaster never wants workmen.—Proverb
   

7. Better sit idle than work for nought.—Proverb

8. Men work but slowly that have poor wages.—Proverb
   

9. If you pay not a servant his wages, he will pay himself.—Proverb
   

10. He that serves well need not be afraid to ask his wages.—Proverb
    

11. S'pose you got a job a work an' there's jus' one fella wants the job. You got to pay 'im what he asts. But s'pose they's a hunderd men wants that job. S'pose them men got kids an' them kids is hungry. S'pose a nickel'll buy at leas' sompin for the kids. An' you got a hunderd men. Jus' offer 'em a nickel—why, they'll kill each other fightin' for that nickel.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath