Show savant says fail to EP aern m living wa wage ge los angeles cul cal six million men mea in the united states in 1012 earnst less than a year rear A recent investigation of wages pali paid in the steel industry shows that one third of tho the vast arm briny y of men employed earned less than the minimum cost of subsistence which was determined nt at a year for a family of five in 1012 1912 and which later In investigations have set nt at approximately the same figure these somewhat startling figures were given by prof francis Franc ls D B sayre of the harvard university law school in an address on the living wage before tho the los angeles city club proceeding upon the conclusion that tho the average family consists 0 ol 01 ronn man and wife and three children and using low cost figures of food clothing and other necessities tho the figure of W a 1 year ear was reached such items R as s 1050 1950 for an overcoat to be worn for three years cara and per year for la is el dentals were cited |