What care have ye for the poor who work at worse than starvation wages, so long as ye can buy cheap and sell at large profits?
If they were content to work for starvation wages, I am not.
He is an under-paid drudge in a retail grocery, on starvation wages.
Professor Nearing also shows the starvation wages for which women are compelled to work in the present system.
Other countries have Protection and yet many of their people are glad to come here and work for starvation wages.
But the nuggies were good to poor tributers sometimes, after they had been working for weeks and months on starvation wages.
The base employment degraded them,—the starvation wages demoralized them.
The past was dead; the future was their own, even in the Allen-street tenement, toiling night and day at starvation wages.
Why should they work for starvation wages so that the concerns using bolts can save 40 per cent on their purchase?
The poor shirt-maker and needlewoman lived on starvation wages.