Labor and Capital: Containing an Account of the Various Organizations of Farmers, Planters, and Mechanics, for Mutual Improvement and Protection Against Monopoly |
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Page 433 - 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 162 - What is bought with money or with goods is purchased by labour, as much as what we acquire by the toil of our own body.
Page 433 - For our business interests, we desire to bring producers and consumers, farmers and manufacturers into the most direct and friendly relations possible. Hence we must dispense with a surplus of middlemen, not that we are unfriendly to them, but we do not need them. Their surplus and their exactions diminish our profits.
Page 436 - It is his duty to do all he can to put down bribery, corruption and trickery ; to see that none but competent, faithful and honest men, who will unflinchingly stand by...
Page 172 - 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 401 - To labor for the education of the agricultural classes in the science of economical government, in a strictly non-partisan spirit, and to bring about a more perfect union of said classes.
Page 379 - To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, 'moral, and social faculties — all of the benefits, recreations, and pleasures of association. In a word, to enable them to share in the gains and honors of advancing civilization.
Page 436 - Husbandry, gives up that inalienable right and duty which belongs to every American citizen, to take a proper interest in the politics of his country. On the contrary, it is right for every member to do all in his power legitimately to influence for good the action of any political party to which he belongs.
Page 252 - In the alcove, on a couch of many dozens of "pants" ready for the finisher, a bare-legged baby with pinched face is asleep. A fence of piled-up clothing keeps him from rolling off on the floor. The faces, hands, and arms to the elbows of everyone in the room are black with the color of the cloth on which they are working. The boy and the woman alone look up at our entrance. The girls shoot sidelong glances, but at a warning look from the man with the bundle they tread their machines more energetically...
Page 414 - Persons appointed under the provisions of this section shall — (a) be male citizens of the United States, at least twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, physically qualified for active military service, and have such other qualifications as may be prescribed by the Secretary of...