...a rule, workman and employer should make free agreements, and in particular should freely agree us to wages ; nevertheless, there is a dictate of nature...the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort. If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer...

...important considerations which it leaves out of view altogether. Let it be granted that, as a rule, workman and employer should make free agreements, and in particular...the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort. If through necessity, or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer...

...procure what is required to live, and the poor can procure it in no other way than by work and wages. Let it be granted, then, that, as a rule, workmen...more ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that the remuneration must be enough to support the wage-earner in reasonable and frugal comfort....

..."Encyclical on the Labor Question," the principles of which are embodied in the following sentences: "There is a dictate of nature more imperious and more ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely that the remuneration must be sufficient to support the wage earner in reasonable and frugal...