Address Delivered by Edward Atkinson: At the Opening of the Second Annual Fair of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, in Boston, Wednesday, September 6, 1882 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Address Delivered by Edward Atkinson: At the Opening of the Second Annual Fair of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, in Boston, Wednesday, September 6, 1882 Even the whole waste and cost of war must come from each year's product during the war itself, except such munitions as may be borrowed from other countries. Debt incurred for war merely defers payment. The first question of wages is a question of quantity, how much is there produced? The second question is the question of price, ...
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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Edward Atkinson: At the Opening of the Second Annual Fair of the New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute, in Boston, Wednesday, September 6, 1882 Even the whole waste and cost of war must come from each year's product during the war itself, except such munitions as may be borrowed from other countries. Debt incurred for war merely defers payment. The first question of wages is a question of quantity, how much is there produced? The second question is the question of price, what is the product worth? The third question, the question of distribution, - what share of the product at its price does the workman receive? The wages fund is not the quantity of things previously produced, but it is substantially the quantity produced at the time or in the year in which the work is done. Fifty cents a day is very surely the average measure of the subsistence, savings, and taxes of each person. One dollar a day for each adult, two dollars a day for each family group of two adults and two children, is the limit, because there is probably no more to buy. By so much as some of you enjoy more, others must have less, if such is the measure of all there is annually produced. What have each one of you done, what are you doing now, to entitle you to more than what half a dollar a day will pay for in food and fuel, shelter and cloth ing? Are you rendering service equivalent to your greater gain? Are you engaged in useful work by which the abun dance of things is increased, and the general struggle for life made easier? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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