...prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer,...

...prohibit, their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise il. In all such disputes, the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, я fanner, a muter manufacturer,...

...unequal provisions. Adam Smith, in 1776, proclaimed this inequality : " We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it." t The injustice has been remedied, and workmen are free to combine not to work under certain wages,...

...combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. (Repealed, 1824). We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work ; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer,...

...revolts, the rebellions of down-trodden *"Wo Imvu uo acts of Parliament," wrote Adam Smith, in 1776, " against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it." , labor, which followed Iluskisson's act of 1824, could, in an equal period of time, or, indeed, at...

...unequal provisions. Adam Smith, in 1776, proclaimed this inequality: "We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it." The injustice has been remedied, and workmen are free to combine not to work under certain wages, and...

...cup of strong beer to himself, when they had none ; but that was pretty nearly all the difference in the manner of living." If we turn to a less prejudiced...ringleaders." Cobbett has said the same thing in more vehement knLruajre. " There was a turn-out * last winter," he writes, after a visit to the clothiers of the...

...man's blood to hear Adam Smith, one hundred and fifty years later, say, " We have no acts of Parliament against combining to lower the price of work ; but many against combining to raise it." But immemorial custom blinds oppressors to their cruelty and the oppressed to their wrongs. Class legislation...

...prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to lower the price of work; but many against combining to raise it. In all such disputes the masters can hold out much longer. A landlord, a farmer, a master manufacturer,...

...do so, could not but draw down his condemnation. He says with truth, ' We have no Acts of Parliament against combining to lower the price of work, but many against combining to raise it.' The author of the Wealth of Nations did not escape from falling into errors. His defence of the Navigation...