"Underpay" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the great god Gouge," he had said to Inglesby, "is passing. It's bad business to overwork and underpay your hands into a state of chronic insurrection. That means losing time and scamping work. The square deal is not socialism nor charity nor a matter of any one man's private pleasure or conscience—it's cold hard common sense and sound scientific ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
... throbbing its life out on the grass, with such pity as he might have given a wounded child. I find this a fit place to say that his mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world, in fear of those who give them a chance for their livelihoods and underpay them all they can. He never went so far in socialism as I have gone, if he went that way at all, but he was fascinated with Looking Backward and had Bellamy to visit him; and from the first he had a luminous vision of organized labor as the only present help for working-men. He would show ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... systematically underpay cabmen," said I, "so do they try to underpay the devil; and he is one too many ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke
... Which is better, to underpay them, treat them like cattle, fill them with just hatred of unjust discrimination, or give them ...
— Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers • Arthur Brisbane
... prevention of overwork in December. Night school and gymnastic classes are a poor penance for child labor and for work unsuited to the body. The left hand cannot dole favors enough to offset the evils of underpay, of unsanitary conditions, of inefficient enforcement of health laws tolerated by the ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen |
