. Labor problems and labor legislation . t from a large corporation,unless aided by legislation. Several states alsorequire that an employee shall be paid duringworking hours, which saves his time. Manystates provide that an employee must be paid assoon as he is discharged and that he can collectinterest charges for any delay. But if a manquits, the law generally allows his wages to beheld until the next regular pay-day. Carlyle protested against modern civilizationbecause its only bond of union between manand man was cash. Yet from another pointof view it is only when wages are paid in cashan
. Labor problems and labor legislation . t from a large corporation,unless aided by legislation. Several states alsorequire that an employee shall be paid duringworking hours, which saves his time. Manystates provide that an employee must be paid assoon as he is discharged and that he can collectinterest charges for any delay. But if a manquits, the law generally allows his wages to beheld until the next regular pay-day. Carlyle protested against modern civilizationbecause its only bond of union between manand man was cash. Yet from another pointof view it is only when wages are paid in cashand the wage-earner is free to buy what hewants and wherever he wants that he has anyreal freedom. The worker who must trade atthe company store is liable to pay excessiveprices for inferior goods. He may find falseitems on his bill, against which he dare notprotest for fear of losing his job, or on theother hand he may be bound to his job by adebt he is never quite able to discharge. Pay-ment in scrip or store orders ties him to the [33]. Under aW \ !| continuous strainyour muscular strengthwill eventuallybreak WAGES company store or lowers his wages by obliginghim to accept a discount in changing from scripto legal money. Half-a-dozen states have enacted legislationwhich attempts to forbid the whole system ofcompany stores and scrip payments. Otherstry to regulate the system by forbidding exces-sive prices or higher charges to employees thanto outsiders. In a company town, however,where the employing corporation is the soleproprietor, this form of regulation is not veryeffective. The largest group of laws, found inabout a dozen states, attempts to prevent anycoercion of the employee to accept companyscrip or to trade in company stores. Fines for tardiness or other breaches of shopdiscipline, for bad work or spoilt material, de-ductions for drinking-water, for needles or theuse of machines may, in the hands of an un-scrupulous employer, amount to a lowering ofwages, and be arbit
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