The Annual Conference of the Independent Labour Party of 1907, going a step further, demanded the erection of a national department for creating work and giving a living wage to the unemployed.
A living wage must be secured to them, and, as a consequence, the farmers' rents must be fixed at a fair level.
In a Socialist State you will have everyone paid a living wage.
The minimum wage law brings to light the industrial incapacity of particular individuals to earn a living wage.
But in the latter case the real evil is industrial weakness and incapacity such that the workers are unable to command "a living wage" in a competitive market.
A wage that is amply a "living wage" when used as a pro-rata contribution to an American family income is frequently insufficient for the girl living "independently.
It is contended that no industry is socially desirable if it cannot pay a living wage, for when wages fall below a certain minimum, poverty, ill-health, and vice are natural results.
It is also urged that because of price changes, and because of differing concepts of a standard of living, it is difficult to determine what is really a living wage.
When laborers are themselves unable to improve their economic position, it is said, it becomes the duty of the state to guarantee them a living wage.
The colliers refused, and demanded a "living wage.
The collier was called selfish because his demand for a living wage kept up the price of coal.
The Press declared that if the colliers persisted in having a living wage we should be beaten by foreign competitors and must lose our foreign trade.
So I want to challenge you to have honest hearings on this, to get together to find a way to make the minimum wage a living wage.
Four dollars and 25 cents an hour is no longer a living wage, but millions of Americans and their children are trying to live on it.
Our full energies may now be released to invigorate the processes of recovery in order to preserve our reforms, and to give every man and woman who wants to work a real job at a living wage.
Consideration of wages and standards of living leads to the question, What is a living wage?
When wage standards are raised, there arises the problem concerning those who cannot earn a living wage.
This disproves the statement often made that those who live at home do not need a living wage.
Failure to gain a living wage is undoubtedly one of the causes, though seldom the sole cause, of the first delinquency of some girls.
The social argument: it is for the common good that the average employee should be paid a living wage.
As a consequence competition will often depress the price below the point where it will yield a living wage to them.
But suppose the question had been one of "a living wage" for the sky-pilots; would not a minimum figure have been speedily decided?
Yes, the clericals, taking them altogether, have had a very good "living wage.
The Christian gentlemen there assembled could not bring themselves to pass a resolution in favor of "a living wage" for the workers.
And yet, after all, is there not something indecent in their talking about a "living wage" for the workers?
I retorted that it was the duty of the Council to set an example and pay a living wage.
It is only by combination that you can demand a living wage, and I contend the present advantages which the men enjoy are mainly due to the work of the Union in the past.
Their object would not be to crush the farmer, but to have a standard wage, which should be a living wage, and not subject to alterations two or three times in the year.
I would rather have a legal right to a living wage than a vote, unless I was clear that I could use the latter to obtain the former and many better things to boot.
There must be many fellow citizens in this country of ours who never knew what it was for twelve months of their life to have a living wage and be out of debt.
Sometimes, I think, we are on the eve of a new era when every capable honest citizen will have the same right to a living wage that he now has to free board and lodging and stone breaking in the workhouse.
Existing evidence shows that they have not often followed upon previous enforcements of living wage policy; yet they must be borne in mind.
The only inductive studies of value which give any indication of the probable result are those which have been made upon the results of living wage legislation.
There should be an extensive and (so far as it is possible) impartial investigation of the cost of that minimum standard of economic life which it is the intention of living wage policy to secure for all industrial wage earners.
This conclusion is strengthened if we consider narrowly what elements of cost the "living wage" ought in principle to cover.
The "right to work" and the right to a "living wage" are just as valid as the rights of person or property.
But, if that is so, it is clear that the system of industrial competition fails to meet the ethical demand embodied in the conception of the "living wage.
For the mass of the people, therefore, to be assured of the means of a decent livelihood must mean to be assured of continuous employment at a living wage, or, as an alternative, of public assistance.
And some of the ministers will say, "How can you expect us to stay, on less than a living wage?
Most of the graduates go either to the cities or the villages, where there is a living wage.
Evan Nelson was wearing himself out, body and brain, for much less than a living wage.
He had been working slavingly at Banfield for a year on less than a living wage, learning practically nothing that would fit him for anything but bank life.
Because the bank could, by intimidation and repression, by promising and bluffing, get him for less than a living wage.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living wage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
