A STUDY ON THE MINIMUM WAGE. By J. H. Richa
son:- (G. Allen and Unwin. 7s. 6d.)-Mr. Richardson, s the help of the library of the International Labour Office Geneva, has written a lucid and informing study of the ni* mum wage problem in the leading countries. A minim, wage for a trade or .clasi may be determined by relation other trades and desks, as under our Trade Boards. Or May be fixed in relation to a " living wage," as in the Don ions. Or it may be settled with"-some consideration of whr, industry can hear, as in Massachusetts or Victoria. author thinks that the time is coming when we may sate] fix a national minimum which be would put at, say, 80 cent. of the average 'wage 6f-unskilled workers in the we organized and normal industries. But the minimum slio vary "not merely according to districts, but also according the total productiVity of the nation. Here the much deli annual census of production_ would be of service, if we co do what. Canada -does.: The -figure at the moment wou probably be 40s. a week for men and 25s. for women, excludi farm labourers. Mr. RichardSon exttinines the family endow ment plan and concludes that it could only benefit a sum minority.
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