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Show II oo LOWEST LIVING iWAGE IS STATED ! CHICAGO, Dec. 18. That 72-. i cents : an. hour is the lowest living i standard Vage for an average American Ameri-can family was the opinion of Frank P. Wal'sh, ' formerly chairman of the employes division of the federal war labor board, according to a letter from I him read today at the hearing before ( Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler, arbi-! arbi-! trator in the wage controversy be- tween the meat packers and their em-j em-j ployes. "The minimum of iVfc cents an hour I does not provide the comforts of life, i nor does it enable a family to lay by any money for the rainy day." wrote Mr. Walsh. |