the-dollar-and-a-half-a-day

Updated: September 22, 2026

In a political speech recently made by an Italian padrone, he bitterly reproached the alderman for giving the-four-dollars-a-day "jobs" of sitting in an office to Irishmen and the-dollar-and-a-half-a-day "jobs" of sweeping the streets to the Italians.

Jane Addams - Democracy and Social Ethics