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... spirit in the unions is kept more keenly alive by those employers who think it the part of wisdom to defeat the real ends of organized labor . During six years of weekly economic lectures before a trade - union audience , I learned that ...
... spirit in the unions is kept more keenly alive by those employers who think it the part of wisdom to defeat the real ends of organized labor . During six years of weekly economic lectures before a trade - union audience , I learned that ...
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... spirit is to be held in abeyance in this country , businesses of this character must be handled with extraordinary cau- tion . The attitude expressed by , " I refuse to arbi- trate because this is alone my business , " is foolhardy in ...
... spirit is to be held in abeyance in this country , businesses of this character must be handled with extraordinary cau- tion . The attitude expressed by , " I refuse to arbi- trate because this is alone my business , " is foolhardy in ...
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... spirit in the sphere of mechanical contrivance , there is consequent loss and embarrass- ment for the whole remedial side of the social ques- tion . This experience has been dearly bought , and much of it has failed , but that which has ...
... spirit in the sphere of mechanical contrivance , there is consequent loss and embarrass- ment for the whole remedial side of the social ques- tion . This experience has been dearly bought , and much of it has failed , but that which has ...
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... spirit that the lower standards are to be used . If this purpose should succeed , it has but one issue , the immense strengthening of a pluto- cratic administration at the top , served by an army of high - salaried helpers , with an ...
... spirit that the lower standards are to be used . If this purpose should succeed , it has but one issue , the immense strengthening of a pluto- cratic administration at the top , served by an army of high - salaried helpers , with an ...
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... spirit that made the necessity of the walking delegate . A class of men like the paid secre- tary had to be created in order to protect the union in those early days when the agitation for an ele- mentary factory legislation began ...
... spirit that made the necessity of the walking delegate . A class of men like the paid secre- tary had to be created in order to protect the union in those early days when the agitation for an ele- mentary factory legislation began ...
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Page 224 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence— the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Page 160 - Napoleon. As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick ; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn* our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Page 132 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 165 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 73 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 73 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both...
Page 244 - May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?
Page 165 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 214 - It would be difficult to think of another field of social or legal reform in which the United States is so far behind other nations. "The most depressing feature of the situation lies in the fact that the very principles involved in this gradual evolution — from the limited liability of employers to that of the compulsory indemnification by them of practically all injured employees — are as yet not even comprehended in the United States.
Page 167 - The momentous seriousness of the present state of things just now fills every mind with painful apprehension; wise men discuss it ; practical men propose schemes ; popular meetings, legislatures, and sovereign princes, all are occupied with it — and there is nothing which has a deeper hold on public attention.