Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of North Carolina, Volume 1Office Bureau Labor Statistics, 1887 - Labor Vols. for 11th-12th, 1897-98 include 1st-2nd reports of the Inspector of Mines. |
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$2 per day 100 yes yes 12 hours 50 better 50 cents 50 no yes 50 yes yes Accumulated Average number Blacksmith Bureau of Labor Carpenter 11 cents per day coko condition contract system convict labor cotton day's debt earnings farm labor farmers free labor guano hired hours per day improvement interest Knights of Labor Labor Statistics land landlord live Machinist manufacturing mechanics merchants mo yes mo'th yes month moral North Carolina Number Average Employed number of employees organization Paid for labor paid weekly past penitentiary piece price poor prison proper ptly yes public roads railroads read and write rent Saw Mill Station agents tenants tobacco turpentine Value of product Value product w'kly yes w'se wages paid week 100 yes weekly in cash women yes Low price yes no yes yes Short crops yes yes yes
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Page 228 - We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable.
Page iii - That the executive power and authority in and over said Territory of Dakota, shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the President of the United States.
Page v - Labor were to be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
Page 224 - To shorten the hours of labor by a general refusal to work for more than eight hours. XXII. To persuade employers to agree to arbitrate all differences which may arise between them and their employes, in order that the bonds of sympathy between them may be strengthened, and that strikes may be rendered unnecessary.
Page 232 - Brotherhood among ourselves, and to make our Order perpetual. We shall earnestly endeavor to suppress personal, local, sectional, and national prejudices, all unhealthy rivalry, all selfish ambition. Faithful adherence to these principles will insure our mental, moral, social and material advancement. BUSINESS RELATIONS. 4. For our business interests, we desire to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers, into the most direct and friendly relations possible.
Page 181 - ... convicts upon the public roads, or when any number of counties have jointly made provision for working convicts upon the public roads, it shall be lawful for and the duty of the judge holding court in such counties to sentence to imprisonment...
Page 233 - We are opposed to such spirit and management of any corporation or enterprise as tends to oppress the people and rob them of their just profits.
Page 120 - Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Camden, Carteret, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham, Cherokee, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Dare, Davidson, Davie, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Gaston, Gates, Graham, Granville, Greene, Guilford, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Henderson, Hertford, Hoke, Hyde...
Page 223 - ... in a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization. In order to secure these results, we demand at the hands of the STATE: III. The establishment of Bureaus of Labor Statistics, that we may arrive at a correct knowledge of the educational, moral and financial condition of the laboring masses.
Page 234 - We desire a proper equality, equity and fairness ; protection for the weak ; restraint upon the strong ; in short, justly distributed burdens and justly distributed power. These are American ideas, the very essence of American independence, and to advocate the contrary is unworthy of the sons and daughters of an American republic.