A Documentary History of American Industrial Society: Labor movement

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John Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen Laura Sumner, John Bertram Andrews
A.H. Clark Company, 1910

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Página 108 - men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made: But the
Página 257 - is under debate, no motion shall be in order except to adjourn, to lay on the table, for the previous question, to postpone, to commit, or to amend.
Página 258 - The previous question shall be in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" It shall be admitted only when demanded by a majority of the
Página 344 - submitted the following resolution: resolved, that a committee of three be appointed to report to the Convention some regulations for the government of apprentices throughout the United States. The resolution was read and adopted; and Messrs. Clephane, Brown, and Johnston, were appointed said committee.
Página 221 - to advance the moral and intellectual condition and pecuniary interests of the laboring classes; promote the establishment of Trades' Unions in every section of the United States ; and also to publish and disseminate such information as may be useful to Mechanics and Working Men generally; and to unite and harmonize the efforts of all the productive classes of our country.
Página 93 - labor can be friends to the country or the Rights of Man. We also say, that we have rights, and we have duties to perform as American Citizens and members of society, which forbid us to dispose of more than Ten Hours for a day's work.
Página 345 - Mr. Stockwell, from the Committee on Chapels, made the following report; which was read, and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject: The Committee to whom was referred the subject of establishing Chapels in
Página 280 - her efforts to sustain herself and family, are actually the same as tying a stone around the neck of her natural protector, Man, and destroying him with the weight she has brought to his assistance. This is the true and natural consequence of female labor, when carried beyond the
Página 80 - RESOLVED, that we view with deep regret the course which some of our fellow citizens, journeymen ship carpenters, caulkers, and others, are pursuing, in the adoption and maintenance of a system of measures designed to coerce individuals of their craft, and to prescribe the time and manner of that labour for which they are liberally paid.
Página 80 - RESOLVED, that we will so far discountenance all associations and combinations for the purposes before stated, that we will neither employ any journeyman who, at the time, belong to such combination, nor will we give work to any master mechanic who shall employ them while they continue thus pledged to each other, and refuse to work during the hours that it has been