The Rights and Dangers of Property: A Sermon Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, January 3, 1872 |
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... operatives in a given occupation may suddenly find their occupation abolished . Continued production of a given article often depends upon keeping the labor cost from advancing or forcing a reduction . The employer is as much perplexed ...
... operatives in a given occupation may suddenly find their occupation abolished . Continued production of a given article often depends upon keeping the labor cost from advancing or forcing a reduction . The employer is as much perplexed ...
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... operatives trained to that work can be profit- ably employed . The limited number of operatives are closely organized in unions which have succeeded in securing remunera- tive wages . The occupations are similar to those in another line ...
... operatives trained to that work can be profit- ably employed . The limited number of operatives are closely organized in unions which have succeeded in securing remunera- tive wages . The occupations are similar to those in another line ...
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... operatives kept in employment through many seasons of excessive supply or slackened demand , solely because there are these reservoirs of wealth , which may be drawn upon at need , and will be replenished with an altered condition of ...
... operatives kept in employment through many seasons of excessive supply or slackened demand , solely because there are these reservoirs of wealth , which may be drawn upon at need , and will be replenished with an altered condition of ...
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... operatives , and factious measures for obtaining control of the labor - market , which can be fair only when left free ; for the actual worth of labor , as of flour or sugar , is determined by the ratio of the supply to the demand . To ...
... operatives , and factious measures for obtaining control of the labor - market , which can be fair only when left free ; for the actual worth of labor , as of flour or sugar , is determined by the ratio of the supply to the demand . To ...
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... operatives . We cannot expect a similar liberality from those who have not the same interests . I hold in my hand a translation of the German law estab- lishing the People's Banks , signed by the present Emperor of Germany , and the ...
... operatives . We cannot expect a similar liberality from those who have not the same interests . I hold in my hand a translation of the German law estab- lishing the People's Banks , signed by the present Emperor of Germany , and the ...
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Page 4 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 4 - It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country, and very materially differs in different countries*. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
Page 29 - Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Page 14 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 14 - ... liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labor.
Page 3 - God made man in his own image," and " gave him dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Page 6 - It was contended at the bar that if what was done in this case had been done by one person only, his conduct would not have been actionable, and that the fact that what was done was effected by many acting in concert makes no difference. My Lords, one man without others behind him who would obey his orders could not have done what these defendants did. One man exercising the same control over others as these defendants had could have acted as they did, and, if he had done so, I conceive that he would...