ABSTRACT
More ingenious use of Scripture has rarely been made than in a recent preliminary report of the National Association of Manufacturers. The document deals with the legislative minimum wage. Oregon and Washington have a real legislative minimum wage. the argument that low wages do not make for ill health: Low general standards of living are usually accompanied by ignorance of the laws and resources of hygiene, by no nutrition and malnutrition, and hence by lower standards of vigor and resistance to disease than where higher standards of living prevail. Obviously, then, lower standards of physical strength and resistance are due to such conditions of labor as excessively long hours of work in the unskilled and sweated industries, or to conditions inherent in the character of the employment itself. In short, "no nutrition and malnutrition" are not due to low wages; "low general standards of living" are not due to low wages.
