Getting a Living: The Problem of Wealth and Poverty--of Profits, Wages and Trade UnionismMacmillan, 1903 - 769 pages |
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... eight - hour day , but later it was decided to make the demand at first in the building trades alone . They were suc- cessful in most cities without a strike . The Federation advised against a further extension of the railway strikes of ...
... eight - hour day , but later it was decided to make the demand at first in the building trades alone . They were suc- cessful in most cities without a strike . The Federation advised against a further extension of the railway strikes of ...
Page 285
... eight - hour day , was a failure , and in settlement the employers exacted the right to introduce machines at will , to say by whom they should be run and to pass on the adequacy of their output , and otherwise to follow the American ...
... eight - hour day , was a failure , and in settlement the employers exacted the right to introduce machines at will , to say by whom they should be run and to pass on the adequacy of their output , and otherwise to follow the American ...
Page 358
... hour's work as his ancestor got then with thirteen hours . With from eight to ten the Black Death . In America , by reason of the crowding of immigrants into the sweated slums , such a gain as that of Great Britain has probably not ...
... hour's work as his ancestor got then with thirteen hours . With from eight to ten the Black Death . In America , by reason of the crowding of immigrants into the sweated slums , such a gain as that of Great Britain has probably not ...
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... Eight . In Eng- land , from its greatest length of 12 to 15 hours a century ago the length of the work day has been ... hour day was also secured by a much larger aggregate number of workers here and there in different occu- pations , while ...
... Eight . In Eng- land , from its greatest length of 12 to 15 hours a century ago the length of the work day has been ... hour day was also secured by a much larger aggregate number of workers here and there in different occu- pations , while ...
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... hour day without strike . Perhaps all the important mechanical trades in cities will soon have a work day not longer than 9 hours . For twenty years this has been the work time of the large class employed in city dry goods stores - from 8 ...
... hour day without strike . Perhaps all the important mechanical trades in cities will soon have a work day not longer than 9 hours . For twenty years this has been the work time of the large class employed in city dry goods stores - from 8 ...
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Page 544 - It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice or malice.
Page 651 - And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
Page 537 - We regard the statute chiefly as in the nature of a direction from a principal to his agent, that eight hours is deemed to be a proper length of time for a day's labor, and that his contracts shall be based upon that theory. It is a matter between the principal and his agent, in which a third party has no interest.
Page 163 - From a legal point of view no part of the whole story is so remarkable as the part played by the judges in defining, and, indeed, in a sense creating, the offense of conspiracy. They defined it, I think, too widely; but that their definition was substantially right is proved by the fact that the act of 1871 has made provision for punishing practically all the acts which they declared to be offenses at common law.
Page 631 - I believe that ignorance and suffering might be lessened to an incalculable extent, and that many an Eden, beauteous in flowers and rich in fruits, might be raised up in the waste wilderness which spreads before us. But no class can do that. The class which has hitherto ruled in this country has failed miserably. It revels in power and wealth, whilst at its feet, a terrible peril for its future, lies the multitude which it has neglected. If a class has failed, let us try the nation.
Page 437 - The question in each case is whether the legislature has adopted the statute in exercise of a reasonable discretion, or whether its action be a mere excuse for an unjust discrimination, or the oppression, or spoliation of a particular class.
Page 437 - We have no disposition to criticise the many authorities which hold that state statutes restricting the hours of labor are unconstitutional. Indeed, we are not called upon to express an opinion upon this subject. It is sufficient to say of them that they have no application to cases where the legislature had adjudged that a limitation is necessary for the preservation of the health of...
Page 223 - The right and liberty to pursue a lawful calling and to lead a peaceable life, free from molestation or attack, concerns the comfort and happiness of all men, and the denial of them means the destruction of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the benefits which the social organization confers.
Page 435 - Sec. 2. The period of employment of working men in smelters and all other institutions for the reduction or refining of ores or metals shall be eight hours per day, except in cases of emergency, where life or property is in imminent danger.
Page 673 - ... country and so many of the necessaries of life to inspection and control by public authority ; the devising of some just system of preventing the rapidly increasing conflicts between employers and employed ; and the establishing of just and proper qualifications alike for immigrants and for electors. It certainly would tend to make private property far more secure in America if the less fortunate majority of our population saw us of the more fortunate minority giving courage and time and thought...