Labor Attitudes and Problems

Передня обкладинка
Prentice-Hall, 1924 - 520 стор.

З цієї книги

Інші видання - Показати все

Загальні терміни та фрази

Популярні уривки

Сторінка 323 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life.
Сторінка 323 - These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "abolition of the wage system.
Сторінка 323 - The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars.
Сторінка 479 - The break shows itself sensationally in the bitter fight between the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World.
Сторінка 237 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Сторінка 430 - The average wage earner has made up his mind that he must remain a wage earner. He has given up the hope of a kingdom to come where he himself will be a capitalist and he asks that the reward for his work be given to him as a workingman.
Сторінка 502 - No one makes an easy living, nor a very good living; but every one can make a living, and no one able and willing to work is oppressed by the fear of want. But just as such a community realizes the conditions which all civilized...
Сторінка 176 - ... war on the scale befitting their high ideals and new resources. "This is not so strange, for only a week ago they were burning and burying alive those who differed from the ruling party in regard to salvation, eviscerating in public those who had new ideas of government, and hanging old women who were accused of traffic with the devil.
Сторінка xiii - How shall we flatten it ? Obviously, you reply, by hitting down on the part that is prominent. Well, here is a hammer, and I give the plate a blow as you advise. Harder, you say. Still no effect. Another stroke ? Well, there is one, and another, and another. The prominence remains, you see : the evil is as great as ever — greater, indeed. But this is not all. Look at the warp which the plate has got near the opposite edge. Where it was flat before it is now curved. A pretty bungle we have made...
Сторінка 502 - tramp' comes with the locomotive, and almshouses and prisons are as surely the marks of 'material progress" as are costly dwellings, rich warehouses, and magnificent churches.

Бібліографічна інформація