Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...required minimum of eight hours' work...
...Dear Sir:---I have inquired into the discharge of Mrs. Emma Trafton from the Widener library and I find that the minimum wage board has been complaining of our employing women for these purposes at less than 37 cents an hour and hence the university has felt constrained to replace them with men. Some of them, I hope many of them, will be able to be employed at some other work in the university...
...Massachusetts minimum wage law applies only to women, and not even to women in all occupations. The board can only recommend that its findings concerning wages be accepted by employers. The law is what it is. The shock to the community is due to the sordid meanness of the richest university in the world in throwing 20 poor scrubwomen out of work for the sake of two cents an hour...
Harvard's administration is wonderfully thrifty when scrubwomen are involved. Chambermaids in the dormitories are not covered by the minimum wage law, for some occult reason; so several of the discharged scrubwomen have been given jobs as chambermaids, who get only 32 cents an hour. Some inconsistency has been pointed out in the paying of cleaning women at the Fogg art museum 37 cents an hour--what the minimum wage commission asked for the scrubwomen in the library. But the extra two cents for the art museum, cleaners are contributed by a generous alumnus whose name should not be withheld...
...Harvard effort to balance the budget by discharging a few scrubwomen rather than pay them two extra cents an hour, as urged by the Massachusetts minimum wage commission, brings the tough-minded realism of the school of business administration into conflict with the more tender-minded humanities, which still flourish, one may hope, in the older departments of the university. It is a tragic collision, in which the humanities have been knocked out. --Springfield Republican...