[93] Decision in Re Employees vs. Worthington Pump and Machinery Corp., Docket No. 163, National War Labor Board; see also decision in the Corn Products Case.
[94] For a recent statistical study of the subject see an article by Ogburn and Kelley in the Journal of the American Statistical Ass'n. for September, 1916.
[95] The Commonwealth Court of Australia, while setting up as an ideal "uniform rates all around Australia" (see The Case of the Federated Storemen and Packers' Union, page 150, Vol. X, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports), has frequently awarded a different basic minimum wage for different cities within the commonwealth.
[96] See D. A. McCabe, page 54, and 162-3 for a review of trade union policy in this matter, "The Standard Rate in American Trade Unions."
[97] Case of the Broken Hill Proprietary Company vs. Federated Engine Drivers' and Foremen's Association of Australia. Pages 196-7 (Vol. X, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports).
[98] Thus in one of its opinions the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations recommended that the flour mills in the state should pay their skilled men a monthly wage whether the mill is running or not, Docket 3803, Opinion regarding "continuity of production in the flour-milling industry," 1920. In another case, however, the Court refused to order the packing industries to guarantee a minimum amount of employment each week to its employees. Docket 3926, Wolff Packing Co., Case 1921.
[99] Case of "Federated Storemen and Packers' Union of Australia vs. Skin & Hide Merchants' Association of Brisbane," page 651, Vol. X, Commonwealth Arbitration Reports. For an example of difficulties to be expected, see the attempt made to set up such a scheme of nominal variations in the Salt Case, No. 1, "South Australian Industrial Reports," Vol. I, page 16.
[100] London Times, Feb. 12, 1920.
[101] Court of Inquiry into Wages of Dock Labour, etc., as reported in the Monthly Labor Review, U. S. Dept. of Labor, May, 1920, page 57.
[102] See D. A. McCabe, "The Standard Rate in American Trade Unions," page 143.