Report, Volume 1Josephus Daniels, 1887 - Labor 11th-12th, 1897-1898 include 1st-2d annual reports of the inspector of mines. |
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$2 per day 100 yes yes 50 better 50 cents 50 no yes Accumulated Average number Blacksmith Bureau of Labor Carpenter 11 cents per day 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 prison proper ptly yes public roads railroads read and write rent Saw Mill sme sme Station agents tenants tobacco trade checks turpentine Value of product Value product w'kly yes w'se wages paid week 100 yes week yes 100 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 iii - Labor, the general design and duties of which shall 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 232 - We shall constantly strive to secure entire harmony, good will, vital 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.
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 223 - That the government shall obtain possession, by purchase, under the right of eminent domain, of all telegraphs, telephones and railroads, and that hereafter no charter or license be issued to any corporation for construction or operation of any means of transporting intelligence, passengers or freight. And while making the foregoing demands upon the State and National government, we will endeavor to associate our own labors: XIX. To establish co-operative institutions such as will tend to supersede...
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.
Page 232 - We propose meeting together, talking together, working together, buying together, selling together, and in general acting together for our mutual protection and advancement, as occasion may require.
Page 234 - It shall be an abiding principle with us to relieve any of our oppressed and suffering brotherhood by any means at our command. Last, but not least, we proclaim it among our purposes to inculcate a proper appreciation of the abilities and sphere of woman, as is indicated by admitting her to membership and position in our Order.