Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Volume 42

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1905

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Page 57 - If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are part of an institution, do not condemn it.
Page 57 - If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents.
Page 57 - If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him. speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think If I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
Page 44 - Dictionary, just published, brings Webster again abreast of the growth of the language, and again confirms it in its position as the one great standard authority. A decade has passed since the International was first published, and the years have been full of changes and growth in...
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Page 190 - Be it Resolved, That the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association in convention assembled, requests the President of the United States to appoint a commission to investigate the best methods of issuing ^Government crop reports, and also to investigate the subject of gambling in cotton futures, to the end that some way may be devised to restrict improper trading in cotton and to protect the legitimate industry of cotton manufacturing from these pernicious influences.
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Page 168 - ... standard allowed abroad, and without attempting at the time to go further into the law of change, we felt that we had at least demonstrated that a standard of 15 per cent, regain for worsted, as had already been assumed, was conservative for this country. Since the promulgation of this standard by the Arlington mills in their regular business dealings In Tops, all other Top makers of this country have.
Page 165 - Control the work and expend the moneys of the Federation under the instruction of the Congress. b. Distribute information of practical value in carrying on and improving the conditions of the cotton trade. c. Assist In the formation, strengthening and assimilating of Associations in all spinning and manufacturing centres of the cotton Industry. d. Call together the delegates to special Congresses when the need shall arise. e. Consult the...

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