. Labor problems and labor legislation . st sum which maylegally be paid the worker. Australia is the birthplace of minimum wagelegislation. Although it was a new and pros-perous country, it was discovered during theeighties that a number of trades were payingstarvation wages and employing their workersunder miserable conditions. Much public feel-ing against these methods developed and afterseveral years agitation the province of Victoriain 1896 passed the first minimum wage applied only to half-a-dozen trades inwhich wages were especially low, but in 1900it was extended so that it mi


. Labor problems and labor legislation . st sum which maylegally be paid the worker. Australia is the birthplace of minimum wagelegislation. Although it was a new and pros-perous country, it was discovered during theeighties that a number of trades were payingstarvation wages and employing their workersunder miserable conditions. Much public feel-ing against these methods developed and afterseveral years agitation the province of Victoriain 1896 passed the first minimum wage applied only to half-a-dozen trades inwhich wages were especially low, but in 1900it was extended so that it might cover any oc-cupation. Practically all the workers of Vic-toria except farm laborers now have their wagesregulated by minimum wage awards, and threeothers of the five Australian provinces havepassed similar legislation. In 1909 Great Britain passed a minimumwage law known as the trade boards act mod-elled on the Victorian statute, and applying tooccupations paying exceptionally low wages,under which minimum wages had been fixed [37]. fter reaching their stride, six experienced 121 151 130 typesettersfound tliat their hourly output diminished the longerthey worked withouta resteriod. TOTAL LINES OF TYPE SET PER HOUR BY SIX EXPERIENCED TYPESETTERS FATIGUE LOWERS OUTPUT. The output of these six typesetters was lowest just beforethe lunch hour and in the late afternoon. 125 AT LUNCH AND AT REST 142


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