| Show with all the discussion about the financial depression tes and the prophecies of better times we fail to hear anything which in any way suggests how to keep keel the wages of the labori laboring ing in man in u up p during periods of dears sion As business has b become acome slack so have wages become lower any contract let at present presen t is based on low baies wages which auton automatically iati c ally keeps times from chang changing inix to an appreciable extent instead of cutting salaries if all employers would keep them up no matter how slack the times then those who had work would be more able to help hell those who have not in fact many of them would con continue to scatter their earnings as usual a instead of pinching and hoarding what they do get with the result that times would be less hard for all what the government and state should do dur during hard times when they are giving jem employment to abio absorb lythe the unemployed would be to lish IM a minimum wage scale for all workers that are employed by contractors on state or gove government rement jobs then the bids for such work would I 1 be e based on such scale and the contractors could not make bids ion low taink thinking ing they could make up the difference in iii the low wages they would offer their workers |
