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A better index of progress is the proportion of organized workers to organizable workers. Two such estimates have been made. Professor George E. Barnett figures the organizable workers in 1900 at 21,837,000; in 1910 at 30,267,000. On this basis wage earners were 3.5 percent organized in 1900 and 7 percent in 1910. Leo Wolman submits more detailed figures for 1910.
He means they are not paid a living wage. They are, says Judge Gary. What can a man buy on that wage, asks the chairman. Nothing, says Mr. Foster. Everything he needs, says Judge Gary. Leo Wolman, for a brilliant discussion of the naive use of such figures and "pseudo-principles." Judge Gary serves notice that he does not regard the official statistics as sound.
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