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 | American Bar Association - 1913 - 1216 pages
...worse evil, the workman accepts a lesser wage and hard conditions, because his employer, though able, will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice. Under such circumstances public disorders will inevitably ensue. I believe the great body of workingmen... | |
 | Henry George - 1881 - 352 pages
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 | 1890 - 516 pages
...been kept back by you, crieth; and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.' If through necessity, or fear of a worse evil, the...conditions, because an employer or contractor will give no better, he is the victim of force and injustice." In these statements of the Pope we have the principle... | |
 | Henry George - 1891 - 168 pages
...through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or a contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice. In these and similar questions, however — such as, for example, the hours of labor in different trades,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 524 pages
...when workmen can only obtain justice by striking, for, again to use the words of the Encyclical, " there is a dictate of nature more imperious and more...will give him no better, he is the victim of force 01 injustice." But these decisions go to much greater lengths than merely reinforcing the liberty of... | |
 | Henry George - 1892 - 216 pages
...through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or a contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice. In these and similar questions, however— such as, for example, the hours of labour in different trades,... | |
 | 1928 - 700 pages
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 | Catholic University of America - 1905 - 518 pages
...freely agree, as to wages; nevertheless, there is a dictate of nature more ancient and more imperious than any bargain between man and man, that the remuneration...contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of fraud and injustice." Pope Leo XIII was not, indeed, the first Catholic authority to proclaim this... | |
 | Charles Coppens - 1895 - 176 pages
...through necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workman accepts harder conditions because an employer or a contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice."—Pope Leo XIII., Encyclical on Labor, 1891. 191. Can wage-earners justly form organizations... | |
 | 1907 - 366 pages
...necessity or fear of a worse evil, the workingman accepts harder conditions, because an employer or a contractor will give him no better, he is the victim of force and injustice. Dr. John Ryan, author of A Living Wage, says : " The laborer who complies in a reasonable degree with... | |
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