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... labor legislation , and for other objects , where the voice of the people was heard as distinctly and followed as faithfully as if they had directly passed upon these questions . There was no need of a poll to know the popular will ...
... labor legislation , and for other objects , where the voice of the people was heard as distinctly and followed as faithfully as if they had directly passed upon these questions . There was no need of a poll to know the popular will ...
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... labor legislation that discrim- inating attention which neither accepts everything because asked for in the name of labor , nor rejects everything because opposed in the name of capital . I recommend to your favorable consideration the ...
... labor legislation that discrim- inating attention which neither accepts everything because asked for in the name of labor , nor rejects everything because opposed in the name of capital . I recommend to your favorable consideration the ...
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... labor is deplorable , the hours of such labor have long been limited by law to fifty - six a week . While with us the problem is more com- plicated , because each State has its own legislation and no uniform statutory regulation of ...
... labor is deplorable , the hours of such labor have long been limited by law to fifty - six a week . While with us the problem is more com- plicated , because each State has its own legislation and no uniform statutory regulation of ...
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Massachusetts. Governor. come to reduce still further the hours of labor of public employees engaged in manual work . A bill to prohibit the imposition of fines or deductions of wages upon factory operatives em- ployed at weaving has ...
Massachusetts. Governor. come to reduce still further the hours of labor of public employees engaged in manual work . A bill to prohibit the imposition of fines or deductions of wages upon factory operatives em- ployed at weaving has ...
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... labor freely given her by noble men and women in her great work of education , charity and reform , and for the health , safety and pros- perity of her people . This recommendation is without personal 1892. ] 25 SENATE - No . 1 .
... labor freely given her by noble men and women in her great work of education , charity and reform , and for the health , safety and pros- perity of her people . This recommendation is without personal 1892. ] 25 SENATE - No . 1 .
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Page 4 - That the United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control over said island except for the pacification thereof, and asserts its determination when that is accomplished to leave the government and control of the island to its people.
Page 35 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the Universe.
Page 4 - In view of these facts and of these considerations I ask the Congress to authorize and empower the President to take measures to secure a full and final termination of hostilities between the Government of Spain and the people of Cuba, and to secure in the island the establishment of a stable government, capable of maintaining order and observing its international obligations, insuring peace and tranquillity and the security of its citizens as well as our own, and to use the military and naval forces...
Page 16 - The inhabitants of the town of Salem, shall continue to be a body politic and corporate, under the name of the city of Salem, and as such, shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, immunities, powers and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties and obligations, now incumbent upon and appertaining to said town as a municipal corporation.
Page 18 - That eight hours shall constitute a day's work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics now employed or who may hereafter be employed by or on behalf of the Government of the United States; and that all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Page 18 - Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 4 - Third, that the President of the United States be, and he hereby is, directed and empowered to use the entire land and naval forces of the United States, and to call into the actual service of the United States the militia of the several States to such extent as may be necessary to carry these resolutions into effect.
Page 4 - Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men: Therefore the people alone have an incontestable unalienable.
Page 18 - These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.
Page 13 - All power residing originally in the people, and being derived from them, the several magistrates and officers of government, vested with authority, whether legislative, executive, or judicial, are their substitutes and agents, and are at all times accountable to them.