The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earnersYale University Press, 1921 - 279 стор. |
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... Congress , and the older parties began eagerly bidding for the votes of the History of the People of the United States ( 1901 ) , vol . v , p . 230 . humble . The decision of great questions fell to this 26 THE ARMIES OF LABOR.
... Congress , and the older parties began eagerly bidding for the votes of the History of the People of the United States ( 1901 ) , vol . v , p . 230 . humble . The decision of great questions fell to this 26 THE ARMIES OF LABOR.
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... Congress . But the cry of opposition went up from the older States that they would be bled for the sake of the newer , that giving land to the landless was encouraging idle- ness and wantonness and spreading demoralization , and that ...
... Congress . But the cry of opposition went up from the older States that they would be bled for the sake of the newer , that giving land to the landless was encouraging idle- ness and wantonness and spreading demoralization , and that ...
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... Congress . There were extreme fluctuations of industry : prosperity was either at a very high level or depression at a very low one . Prosperity would bring on an expansion of credits , a rise in prices , higher cost of living , strikes ...
... Congress . There were extreme fluctuations of industry : prosperity was either at a very high level or depression at a very low one . Prosperity would bring on an expansion of credits , a rise in prices , higher cost of living , strikes ...
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... eight hours a day's work for women and children . In 1868 Congress established an eight - hour day for public work . These were promising signs , though the battle was still far from being won . The eight- AMALGAMATION 71 '
... eight hours a day's work for women and children . In 1868 Congress established an eight - hour day for public work . These were promising signs , though the battle was still far from being won . The eight- AMALGAMATION 71 '
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... Congress in 1916 , when he called for action to avert a great railway strike . But to win that sanction required over half a century of popular agitation , discussion , and economic and political evolution . Such , in brief , were the ...
... Congress in 1916 , when he called for action to avert a great railway strike . But to win that sanction required over half a century of popular agitation , discussion , and economic and political evolution . Such , in brief , were the ...
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The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth Повний перегляд - 1921 |
The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth Повний перегляд - 1921 |
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Сторінка 24 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Сторінка 195 - 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. Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Сторінка 234 - That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world...
Сторінка 269 - Plumbers was settled by an amalgamation called the United Association of Journeymen Plumbers, Gas Fitters, Steam Fitters, and Steam Fitters' Helpers, which is now affiliated with the Federation.
Сторінка 75 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Сторінка 118 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
Сторінка 4 - ... divided into small enclosures from two acres to six or seven each, seldom more, every three or four pieces of land had an house belonging to them.
Сторінка 145 - The suggestion, however, grows out of a profound conviction that the food and clothing of our people, the industries and the general welfare of the nation...
Сторінка 190 - Every union should have a rifle club. I strongly advise you to provide every member with the latest improved rifle, which can be obtained from the factory at a nominal price.
Сторінка 45 - The operatives work thirteen hours a day in the summer time, and from daylight to dark in the winter. At half past four in the morning the factory bell rings, and at five the girls must be in the mills. A clerk, placed as a watch, observes those who are a few minutes behind the time, and effectual means are taken to stimulate to punctuality.
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