A Documentary History of American Industrial Society: Labor movementJohn Rogers Commons, Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Eugene Allen Gilmore, Helen Laura Sumner, John Bertram Andrews A.H. Clark Company, 1910 |
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accepted adjourned adopted Amaziah ARTICLE Association Baltimore Boston called cents chair cieties classes Co-operation committee appointed committee of three communication CONVENTION OF 1836 Corresponding Secretary credentials delegates duty elected Ely Moore employ employers females Finance Committee following resolution Frederick Remington Hatters Henry Daniels hour system House Carpenters interests J. G. Robinson James James Douglass John Commerford John Ferral Journeymen Cordwainers Journeymen Tailors Makers measures mechanics meeting Men's Branch Messrs Milo mittee motion National Convention National Laborer National Trades Newark offered the following officers oppression Pennsylvanian Philadelphia preamble and resolutions present proceedings received Remington represented requested resigned resolved Saddlers Schenectady seats session Seth Luther strike Thomas Hogan Thompson three be appointed tion Trade Societies Trades Union Troy unanimously Union of Albany United vention Vice President vicinity W. R. Erwin wages whereas Whitney William workingmen York
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Página 104 - Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.
Página 236 - The previous question shall be in this form, " Shall the main question be now put ?'' It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present, and...
Página 76 - We will neither employ any journeyman who at the time belongs to such combinations, 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 the hours which it has been and is now customary for mechanics to work.
Página 235 - When a question is under debate no motion shall be received but to adjourn; to lay on the table...
Página 201 - City when a convention was called from all parts of the country "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 workingmen generally; and to unite and harmonize the efforts of all the productive classes of the country.
Página 19 - The answer is plain and simple — by making cheap work, triple the quantity has to be made to obtain a living; this produces, at dull seasons, a surplus of work in the market; and these large manufacturers taking advantage of the times have compelled their journeymen to make the work so far superior to the manner in which it was originally made for the wages given, that it is now brought into competition with first-rate work. This again lessens the quantity of first-rate work made, and the journeymen,...
Página 73 - ... should be countenanced by the community, it must, of consequence, extend to and embrace all the Working Classes in every department in Town and Country, thereby effecting a most injurious change in all the modes of business, and in the operations...
Página 307 - It shall be the duty of local societies to have prepared an annual report of their condition, showing the number of members admitted for the year preceding ; the amount of receipts from initiation, dues, and fines ; the number of newspapers and periodical publications, together with all offices of whatever character, under the immediate control of practical printers, at the time of making such reports ; also, those under the control of others than printers, and such other information...
Página 258 - ... reflecting female, that all her exertions are scarce sufficient to keep her alive; that the price of her labor each year is reduced; and that she in a measure stands in the way of the male when attempting to raise his prices or equalize his labor, and that 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.
Página 232 - That in the judgment of this committee, the thanks of ev-ery patriot citizen of the State are due to Gen. Fuller for the able and efficient manner in which he has discharged the duties of the office, and for his indefatigable efforts in collecting and preserving this glorious record of a glorious State.