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Page 10 - ... the bread of the laborer is eaten in the peril of his life. Whether he work upon the sea, upon the earth, or in the mines underneath the earth, the laborer constantly faces imminent death; and his danger increases with the progress of the age. With each new invention the number of killed and injured rises. Each new speeding up of the mechanisms of industrial life, each increase in the number and size of our mighty engines brings with it fresh human sacrifices. Each year the locomotive augments...
Page 5 - ... masses, and the result of their establishment, only just beginning to be felt, are nevertheless of such a character as to silence most of those who were opposed to their creation. During the Twentieth General Assembly, 1884, there was introduced in the Senate by Senator Talton E. Clark of Page County, a bill for an act to create a Bureau of Labor Statistics. The bill was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, (Senator Wm. Larrabee, chairman), who reported the bill back to the Senate and...
Page 5 - Bureaus. The Labor Bureaus have been established in obedience to the demands, if not the commands, of the great laboring masses, and the results of their establishment, only just beginning to be felt, are nevertheless of such a beneficial character as to silence most of those who were opposed to their creation. That the public have begun to...

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