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... Strikes 143 How to Regain Government .. 148 151 Gift , Graft and Guarantee - by Donald Richberg ..... Mr. Richberg , as attorney for the Railway Employes ' de- partment of the American Federation of Labor , has ample opportunity to come ...
... Strikes 143 How to Regain Government .. 148 151 Gift , Graft and Guarantee - by Donald Richberg ..... Mr. Richberg , as attorney for the Railway Employes ' de- partment of the American Federation of Labor , has ample opportunity to come ...
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... strikes because they are with us - and the poor also are with us . Why do men strike ? Simply when there is no other way to secure . a hearing or secure justice . You may say , " But they have an exalted opinion of what they regard ...
... strikes because they are with us - and the poor also are with us . Why do men strike ? Simply when there is no other way to secure . a hearing or secure justice . You may say , " But they have an exalted opinion of what they regard ...
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... Strikes ! What are they anyway ? Of what does a strike consist ? It is a cessation of work upon the terms for which service had been given , and an insistence or demand or request for different terms . In any event , it is nothing more ...
... Strikes ! What are they anyway ? Of what does a strike consist ? It is a cessation of work upon the terms for which service had been given , and an insistence or demand or request for different terms . In any event , it is nothing more ...
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... strike - breakers . Furthermore , there is no penalty provided for the violation of that provision of the law . I do not know how many of you gentlemen are students of law or which other professions you are now studying , but you who ...
... strike - breakers . Furthermore , there is no penalty provided for the violation of that provision of the law . I do not know how many of you gentlemen are students of law or which other professions you are now studying , but you who ...
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... without that man's consent . I thank God that we have a system of labor where there can be a strike . Whatever the pressure , there is a point where the workman can stop . Labor is prior to , and independent of , capital 53 LINCOLN.
... without that man's consent . I thank God that we have a system of labor where there can be a strike . Whatever the pressure , there is a point where the workman can stop . Labor is prior to , and independent of , capital 53 LINCOLN.
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Page 288 - Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
Page 267 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extreamly ambitious.
Page 248 - I HEARTILY accept the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.
Page 228 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of ' We, the people,' instead of ' We, the States ' ? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the States be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government, of the people of all the States.
Page 285 - I have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your recently saying that both the army and the government needed a dictator. Of course it was not for this, but in spite of it, that I have given you the command. Only those generals who gain successes can set up dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship.
Page 285 - I much fear that the spirit which you have aided to infuse into the army, of criticising their commander and withholding confidence from him, will now turn upon you.
Page 286 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 54 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 267 - Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
Page 300 - When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy : neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive ; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast of its constitution and its government.