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Page 183 - Garrison was dragged through the streets of Boston with a rope around his neck...
Page 265 - States, or a judge or the judges thereof, in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property, or to a property right...
Page 266 - For an Act declaring the purpose of the State of North Dakota to engage in the...
Page 257 - An act declaring the purpose of the state of North Dakota to engage in the business of manufacturing and marketing farm products, and to establish a warehouse, elevator, and flour mill system under the name of "North Dakota Mill & Elevator Association,
Page 262 - ... and their families and dependents, sure and certain relief is hereby provided regardless of questions of fault and to the exclusion of every other remedy, proceeding or compensation, except as otherwise provided in this act...
Page 144 - This proposition to your committee seems to be a solution of many of the problems of correcting the evils and injustices now In existence in the handling of grain at the head of the lakes, and your committee will now take up the matter of perfecting an organization to lease one or more of the Great Northern elevators with the independent shippers of the state.
Page 263 - Washington, therefore, exercising herein its police and sovereign power, declares that all phases of the premises are withdrawn from private controversy, and sure and certain relief for workmen, injured in extra hazardous work, and their families and dependents is hereby provided regardless of questions of fault and to the exclusion of every other remedy, proceeding or compensation, except as otherwise provided in this act...
Page 236 - An influence so large that they can say ... we are going to have 40,000,000,000 of dollars to spend here to prosecute this war. Now, how much have we got to pay the farmers for wheat to keep bread in the boys
Page 46 - From our knowledge of the dockage taken at country elevators and also of that fixed by official inspectors at terminal points during the period named, we believe this dockage of three-quarters of a pound actually taken from the wheat to have been very much less than that taken from the shipper or farmer. These screenings sold for about $8 per ton. After this dockage of three-quarters of a pound per bushel was taken out the grain was shipped out as clean grain without any dockage.
Page 158 - Chicago, the Chamber of Commerce of Minneapolis, and the Board of Trade of Duluth, acting in combination — This document contains lengthy statements of the ultra-radicals.