The Chronicles of America Series, Том 40Yale University Press, 1919 |
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... the first president of the new union , a powerful ora- tor and a sagacious organizer , was elected to Con- gress on the Jackson ticket . He was backed by Tammany Hall , always on the alert for winners , FORMATIVE YEARS 31.
... the first president of the new union , a powerful ora- tor and a sagacious organizer , was elected to Con- gress on the Jackson ticket . He was backed by Tammany Hall , always on the alert for winners , FORMATIVE YEARS 31.
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... president of the society , who was fined $ 150 . After the trial there was held a mass meeting which was attended , according to the Evening Post , by twenty- seven thousand persons . Resolutions were passed declaring that " to all acts ...
... president of the society , who was fined $ 150 . After the trial there was held a mass meeting which was attended , according to the Evening Post , by twenty- seven thousand persons . Resolutions were passed declaring that " to all acts ...
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... President Van Buren declar- ing ten hours to be the working day for laborers and mechanics in government employ forced the issue upon private employers . The earliest con- certed action , it would seem , arose in New Eng- land , where ...
... President Van Buren declar- ing ten hours to be the working day for laborers and mechanics in government employ forced the issue upon private employers . The earliest con- certed action , it would seem , arose in New Eng- land , where ...
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... President Hayes into many of the States ; and a proclamation by the President commanded all citizens to keep the peace . Thus was Federal authority introduced to bolster up the administrative weakness of the States , and the first step ...
... President Hayes into many of the States ; and a proclamation by the President commanded all citizens to keep the peace . Thus was Federal authority introduced to bolster up the administrative weakness of the States , and the first step ...
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... President Wilson in his message to 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 ...
... President Wilson in his message to 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 ...
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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? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed?
Сторінка 77 - When bad men combine, the good must associate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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 61 - The case supposes that these persons are not bound by contract, but free to work for whom they please, or not to work, if they so prefer. In this state of things, we cannot perceive, that it is criminal for men to agree together to exercise their own acknowledged rights, in such a manner as best to subserve their own interests.
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 5 - Land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow Corn enough to feed their Poultry. . . . The houses are full of lusty Fellows, some at the Dye-vat, some at the looms, others dressing the Cloths; the women 'and children carding or spinning; being all employed from the youngest to the oldest.
Сторінка 120 - 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 5 - Every clothier keeps one horse, at least, to carry his Manufactures to the Market ; and every one, generally, keeps a Cow or two or more for his Family. By this means the small Pieces of enclosed Land about each house are occupied, for they scarce sow Corn enough to feed their Poultry.
Сторінка 45 - ... those who are a few minutes behind the time, and effectual means are taken to stimulate to punctuality. This is the morning commencement of the industrial discipline — (should we not rather say industrial tyranny?) which is established in these Associations of this moral and Christian community. At seven the girls are allowed thirty minutes for breakfast, and at noon thirty minutes more for dinner, except during the first quarter of the year, when the time is extended to forty-five minutes.
Сторінка 237 - This party will exhaust all peaceable means of attaining its ends, but it will not be denied justice when it has the power to enforce it. It will encourage no riot or outrage, but it will not volunteer to repress, or put down, or arrest, or prosecute the hungry and impatient who manifest their hatred of the Chinamen by a crusade against ' John,