06-07-2010, 09:47 AM
$1 a day went a LOT farther back in the 30's than it does now. I heard out of $30 a month, $25 was automatically sent home. Talk about a stimulus package! Those meals the workers ate had to come from somewhere. The money sent home was spent in local economies, not some multinational corporations. Plus, when WWII rolled around, we were ready to mobilize with an army of healthy young men accustomed to taking orders and ready to serve a country they had literally worked to rebuild.
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Actually that was not the Union wage for track workers in those days..Even a factory paid more then that famous $1.00 a day that is often used..You see a lot of people fail to realized there was lots of union jobs back then that paid good hourly wages..IIRC a $1.00 a day was "soldiers pay" for unskilled laborers doing odd jobs that nobody wanted like cutting logs or working in a independently owned small saw mill that's common in the Southern States..
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Actually that was not the Union wage for track workers in those days..Even a factory paid more then that famous $1.00 a day that is often used..You see a lot of people fail to realized there was lots of union jobs back then that paid good hourly wages..IIRC a $1.00 a day was "soldiers pay" for unskilled laborers doing odd jobs that nobody wanted like cutting logs or working in a independently owned small saw mill that's common in the Southern States..
Larry
Engineman
Summerset Ry
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Engineman
Summerset Ry
Make Safety your first thought, Not your last! Safety First!