The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-earners

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Yale University Press, 1921 - 279 стор.

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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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