"What I am driving at," said Sancho, "is that your worship settle some fixed
wages for me, to be paid monthly while I am in your service, and that the same he paid me out of your estate; for I don't care to stand on rewards which either come late, or ill, or never at all; God help me with my own.
If we had not been all nearly on an equality in the matter of
wages, these distinctions would have made bad blood among us.
The various interests and conditions of life within the ranks of the proletariat are more and more equalised, in proportion as machinery obliterates all distinctions of labour, and nearly everywhere reduces wages to the same low level.
It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
She husbanded her money, with the utmost frugality, and contrived to save even a few sous daily, out of her own wages, to add to her grandmother's stock.
She had been able to save of her own wages three, and here, then, were the means of maintaining Madame de la Rocheaimard, including the franc on hand, for just a week longer.
"I suppose you mean that I am to do my work for my wages; not to expect favour from you, and not to depend on you for any help but what I earn; that suits me exactly, and on these terms I will consent to be your clerk."
Crimsworth has set me; I can earn my wages conscientiously, and those wages are sufficient to enable me to live.
The
wages of fifty boys each year will come to three hundred pounds-- that is, fifteen hundred dollars.
The owners of the land had thought that they should be ruined did they pay the great
wages demanded of them.
And Billy resolutely kept undivulged the cut in
wages. Not until two weeks later, when it went into effect, and he poured the diminished sum into her lap, did he break it to her.
All sorts of pleas for a reconsideration were made, but the packers were obdurate; and all the while they were reducing
wages, and heading off shipments of cattle, and rushing in wagonloads of mattresses and cots.
Then labor has received in
wages, during the same period, two billion dollars.
There could be no doubt that he looked upon me as the greatest fool on earth, and that "he did not get rid of me" was simply that he could get
wages from me every month.
If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to
wage war for him: and in order to
wage war, one must be CAPABLE of being an enemy.
