“Resolved, That the States should Establish a Schedule of Minimum Wages for Unskilled Labor, Constitutionality Conceded.”
The Delta Sigma Rho Chapter at the University of Chicago published a 51 page broschure that included the constructive and rebuttal speeches of the Chicago teams along with debating briefs and a bibliography from the sixteenth annual contest of the Central Debating League against Michigan and Northwestern. The debates took place on January 17, 1914.
Below I post the bibliography from the Chicago teams.
The debate coach of those University of Chicago teams was the economist Harold Glenn Moulton (1883-1965).
Ph.B. University of Chicago, 1907; Instructor in Evanston Academy, 1908-9; Fellow in Political Economy, University of Chicago, 1909-10; Traveling Fellow in Political Economy ibid., 1910; Assistant in Political Economy, ibid., 1910-11; Instructor, ibid., 1911-1914; Ph.D., ibid., 1914; Assistant Professor, ibid., 1914—.
Harold Glenn Moulton went on to become the president of the Brookings Institution.
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The Bibliography
Horwich, Isaac A.: Immigration and Labor, Pullman, N. Y., 1912.
Blatchford, Robert: Living wage, and the law of supply and demand.
Boyle, James: Minimum wage and syndicalism, Cincinnati, 1913.
Commons, J. R.: Trade unionism and labor problem. Chap. 8 State arbitration and the minimum wage in Australasia.
Seager, H. R.: Introd. to economics. Distribution of wages. 222-43.
Rogers, J. E. T.: Six centuries of work and wages: The history of English labor. N. Y., 1884.
Bul. 8: 1142-281. Labor conditions in New Zealand.
Bul. 10: 60-78. Minimum wage boards in Australia.
U. S. Congress. Senate Committee on wages and prices of commodities.
Clark, V. S.: The labor movement in Australasia. N. Y., 1906. Minimum wage boards: pp. 138-153.
Great Britain. Home Dept. Report on the wages boards and industrial conditions and arbitration acts of Australia and New Zealand. By Ernest Aves. Lond. 1908.
Ryan, John A.: Living wage. N. Y. 1912.
Adams, T. S., and Summer, H. L.: Labor Problems.
Chapin, R. C.: The standard of living.
Carlton, T. F.: History and problems of organized labor. Bibliogs. pp.
Mass. Com’n on minimum wage boards. Report 1912.
Streighthoff, F. H.: Standard of living among the industrial people of America. Bost. 1911. Bibliog. xv-xlx.
Minimum Wage. Intercollegiate debates. Vol. 2. pp. 44-545.
Wages and hours of labor. Mass. Com’n on the cost of living, 1910.
Webb, Sidney: Industrial Democracy.
Articles in Periodicals.
1913 Minimum wage. Clark, J. B.: Atlantic Monthly. Sept. pp. 289-297.
Minimum wage in Great Britain and Australia. M. B. Hammond Ann. Amer. Acad. 48: 22-36. Jl.
Immigration and the minimum wage. P. U. Kellogg. Ann. Amer. Acad. 48: 66-77. July.
Mass, and the minimum wage. H. L. Brown. Ann. Amer. Acad. 48: 13-21.
Relation of scientific management to the wage problem. C. B. Thompson. J. Pol. Econ. 21: 630-42. July.
Living wage and the living rate. T. Roosevelt. Outlook. 104: 501-2.
Legal minimum wage. J. Boyle. Forum. 49: 576-84. May.
Minimum wage legislation. J. A. Ryan. Cath. World. 96: 577-86. Feb.
Cost of living in New Zealand. E. Tregear. Ind. 75: 205-7. Jl. 24.
Theory of minimum wage. H. R. Seager. Amer. Labor Legislation Rev. Vol. 3: 81-91. General Discussion. Pp. 92-115.
1913. Monopoly of Labor. J. L. Laughlin. Atlantic Monthly. Oct. pp. 444-453.
1913. Minimum wage and emergency employment. (Negative.)
1913. Foerster, H. F.: Horwich’s Immigration Labor. O. J. Econ. 217: 656-71. Aug.
1913. Minimum Wage States. Editional Outlook, Nov. 8, 1913. p. 516.
1913. Minimum wage boards and hours regulation and discussion. By Irene Osgood Andrews. Life and Labor. Oct. pp. 297-303.
What is the minimum wage? A. N. Holcombe. Survey. 29: 74-6.
British miners and the minimum wage. J. A. Ryan. Survey. 28: 10-1.
Legal minimum wage in the U. S. A. N. Holcombe. Am. Econ. R. 2: 21-37.
Economic theory of a legal minimum wage. S. Webb. J. Pol. Econ. 20: 973-98. Dec.
Minimum wage act a substantial review of the text of the British coal mine act. Eng. Mag. 43: 451-3.
Minimum wage. T. Roosevelt. Outlook. 102: 159-60.
Perils of the minimum wage. Cont. 84: 31.
1911. Minimum wage and immigrant Labor. P. U. Kellogg. Nat’l Conf. Char, and Correc. 1911. 16: 5-77.
British report upon real wages in America and England. W. C. Mitchell, Q. J. Econ. 26: 160-3.
Minimum wage and immigration restriction: symposium. Survey. 25: 789-92.
Vice and wages. J. A. Hill. Survey. 27: 1191. Nov. 11.
Wages and cost of living. R. C. Chapin. N. C. C. and Correc. 1910. 449.
British minimum wages act of 1909. A. N. Holcombe. Q. J. Econ. 24: 574-7.
British minimum wages act of 1909. Text. Q. J. Econ. 24: 578-68.
Victorian wages boards and the New Zealand conciliation arbitration act. P. Kennaday. Yale R. 19: 32-54.
1909. Chapman, S. J.: Hours of labor. Economic Jour. Sept. v. 19: 353-373.
Present state of labor legislation in Australia and New Zealand. V. S. Clark. Ann. Amer. Acad. 33: 440-7.
Living wage. By J. A. Ryan. Review. Char. 17: 471-2.
1905. Freund, Ernst: Limitations of hours and labor and the federal supreme court. Green Bag. July, v. 17: 411-417.
Source: Central Debating League, University of Chicago. The Minimum Wage: A Debate. Chicago: 1914., pp. 50-51.
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