Clementina Black, champion of women's issues, spoke in favour of a minimum wage at the National Conference of Trade Unionists in 1906
J. A. Hobson, economist and author, supporter of the minimum wage and speaker at the Conference.
The National Anti-Sweating League was formed in 1906. It campaigned for a minimum wage as a means to eradicate "sweating"; long hours of work done for starvation wages in appalling conditions.
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