The Tobacco Worker, Volumes 18-20E. Lewis Evans 1914 |
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... weekly . Largest cir- culation of any scientific journal . Terms , $ 3 a year : four months , $ 1 . Sold by all newsdealers . MUNN & CO.361roadway . New York Branch Office , 625 F St. , Washington , D. C. WANTED : TOBACCO WORKERS to ...
... weekly . Largest cir- culation of any scientific journal . Terms , $ 3 a year : four months , $ 1 . Sold by all newsdealers . MUNN & CO.361roadway . New York Branch Office , 625 F St. , Washington , D. C. WANTED : TOBACCO WORKERS to ...
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... week per member to carry on the fight , and last week we arranged a tag day , which netted the strikers over $ 2,000 . Our taking up the cause of the unorganized girls has been the talk of the town , and women work- ers all over the ...
... week per member to carry on the fight , and last week we arranged a tag day , which netted the strikers over $ 2,000 . Our taking up the cause of the unorganized girls has been the talk of the town , and women work- ers all over the ...
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... week . During the twelve months this union was in existence every dollar avail- able was spent for organizing literature . Four business agents are now necessary to carry on the work for this army of teamsters , whose officers report ...
... week . During the twelve months this union was in existence every dollar avail- able was spent for organizing literature . Four business agents are now necessary to carry on the work for this army of teamsters , whose officers report ...
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... week after . If he cannot get even with you he will lay for your unsuspecting friend . And at last , when arrested in his crime and lodged in the pen , he is liable to attacks of mania from sheer helpless rage . From Horace Kephart's ...
... week after . If he cannot get even with you he will lay for your unsuspecting friend . And at last , when arrested in his crime and lodged in the pen , he is liable to attacks of mania from sheer helpless rage . From Horace Kephart's ...
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... week . Male workers receive between $ 8 and $ 14 . More than one - half receive less than $ 10 a week . One - half of the women are paid less than $ 6 a week , while less skilled ones receive as low as $ 4.50 a week . Deductions for ab ...
... week . Male workers receive between $ 8 and $ 14 . More than one - half receive less than $ 10 a week . One - half of the women are paid less than $ 6 a week , while less skilled ones receive as low as $ 4.50 a week . Deductions for ab ...
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Page 16 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable — and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Page 3 - That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit...
Page 16 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week — or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed; and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Page 5 - ... employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do; or from paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person engaged in such dispute, any strike benefits or other moneys or things of value; or from peaceably assembling in a lawful manner, and for lawful purposes; or from doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such dispute by any party thereto; nor shall any of the acts specified in this...
Page 5 - ... attending at any place where any such person or persons may lawfully be, for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or from peacefully persuading any person to work or to abstain from working; or from ceasing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do...
Page 4 - ... consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
Page 2 - That the Secretary of Labor shall have power to act as mediator and to appoint commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes whenever in his judgment the interests of industrial peace may require it to be done...
Page 16 - Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs, and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?
Page 3 - Nothing contained In the anti-trust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain Individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof: nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint...
Page 5 - In present conditions a workman not unnaturally may believe that only by belonging to a union can he secure a contract that shall be fair to him. • * • If that belief, whether right or wrong, may be held by a reasonable man, it seems to me that it may be enforced by law in order to establish the equality of position between the parties in which liberty of contract begins.