wages due to workmen
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From 391 U.S. 224 - Joint Industry Board of Electrical Industry v. United States · 1968Most cited · 202 citing opinions
the manifest purpose of the priority was 'to enable employees displaced by bankruptcy to secure, with some promptness, the money directly due to them in back wages, and thus to alleviate in some degree the hardship that unemployment usually brings to workers and their families