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Domestic News
June 6, 1893
The Weekly Register
Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia
What is this article about?
Commentary on star route mail contractors profiting by underpaying sub-contractors, urging workers to demand fair pay to end the practice in the local vicinity.
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Some of the star route mail contractors who for years have been growing rich off the labor of sub-contractors are coming to grief. Their only means of securing profit was by swindling the sub-contractor. The profit when there is any should go to the man who does the work. When people learn to refuse these jobs unless paid for at their real value, the star route rs will be out of employment. Nearly all the routes in this vicinity are sub-let and we do not know of a single one on which the man who does the work gets over half pay for his labor.
What sub-type of article is it?
Transportation
Economic
What keywords are associated?
Star Route
Mail Contractors
Sub Contractors
Swindling
Fair Pay
Postal Routes
Domestic News Details
Event Details
Star route mail contractors have been growing rich by swindling sub-contractors, who do the actual work but receive less than half pay. The text advises refusing underpaid jobs to put contractors out of employment. Nearly all local routes are sub-let.