The Apprenticeship System, Volume 37

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Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1906 - 85 pages
 

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Page 60 - ... the day before. Inventions have been introduced so rapidly and extensively during the last ten years that many trades have been almost revolutionized. This rapid introduction of machinery has had a tendency to depress wages; the reduction in wages and the lack of security in workshop management has been the cause of sending many a boy to college who would have gone into the workshop after passing through the routine of the common public school. Americans believe that they live in the best country...
Page 22 - Cup, subject to the said trust, terms and conditions, and hereby covenants and agrees to and with said party of the first part that...
Page 64 - In testimony whereof, the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals, this day of , 18 AB, Lessor.
Page 25 - This indenture, made the day of , in the year eighteen hundred and , between , of party of the first part, and .•, of , party of the second part. Whereas...
Page 13 - No indenture of apprenticeship or service, made in pursuance of this chapter, shall bind the minor after the death of his master, but the apprenticeship or service shall be thenceforth discharged, and the minor may be bound out anew.
Page 74 - ... at least a part of the trade in which they are employed, an opportunity to broaden their mechanical training and make themselves more efficient workmen. It is not the function of this school to train apprentices as such, but to supplement the imperfect and highly specialized training of modern shops by giving machine hands, helpers, and apprentices, so far as there are any apprentices, an opportunity to gain practice in a greater variety of work than would ever be open to any one man under the...
Page 58 - ... native born is being driven from the workshop to make room for the workmen of foreign birth. It is held by many that the trade union is to blame for this state of affairs; that the American labor organization is inimical to the interests of the American workman. When the mechanic worked steadily for six days in the week to perform a certain amount of work by hand it was necessary for him to know the use of tools; in order to fit himself for the performance of such a task he had to bind himself...
Page 14 - International Association of Steam, Hot Water and Power Pipe Fitters and Helpers.
Page 12 - All considerations, of money or other things, paid or allowed by the master, upon any contract of service or apprenticeship...
Page 28 - and to faithfully conform to the provisions thereof. The party of the third part, in consideration of the covenants on the part of the party of the first part...

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