The White Slavery: A Study of the Present Trades Union System

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Werner Company, 1909 - Labor unions - 328 pages
 

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Page 42 - That no officer, clerk, or other person in the service of the United States shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any other officer, clerk, or person in the service of the United States, or to any Senator or Member of the House of Representatives, or Territorial Delegate, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any political object whatever.
Page 41 - States, and no clerk or employee of any department, branch, or bureau of the executive, judicial, or military or naval service of the United States, shall, directly, or indirectly, solicit or receive, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting or receiving, any assessment, subscription, or contribution for any political purpose whatever, from any officer, clerk, or employee of the United State, or any department, branch, or bureau thereof, or from any person receiving any salary or compensation...
Page 234 - An' set your beauties a' abread ! Ye little ken what cursed speed The blastie 'a makin' ! Thae winks and finger-ends, I dread, Are notice takin' ! 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us...
Page 185 - It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed.
Page 66 - If he did but himself a wrong we might pity him and concede not only his legal but his moral right. But the workman who toils for wages and expects to end his days in the wage-earning class, as conditions seem to point, it will be a necessity, his bounden duty to himself, to his family, to his fellowmen and to those who are to come after him to join in the union.
Page 57 - The defendants take the position that the act contravenes section 1 of the fourteenth amendment to the federal Constitution, which prohibits the states from making or enforcing any law which shall abridge the privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States...
Page 24 - No one not a member of the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America shall be allowed to work at any of the four trades, excepting our own apprentices." Of course this policy, if enforced, would promote the individual advantage of the members of the association. But how as to the other side of the equation? If this policy is enforced, the right of industrial freedom is thereby limited and impaired...
Page 165 - ... to render employment and the means of subsistence less precarious, by securing an equitable share of the fruits of their toil, is the most vital necessity of the present day.
Page 183 - While all countries were filled with lamentations and woe, there first arose in Hungary, and afterwards in Germany, the Brotherhood of the Flagellants, called also the Brethren of the Cross, or Crossbearers, who took upon themselves the repentance of the people for the sins they had committed, and offered prayers and supplications for the averting of this plague.
Page 24 - Each manufacturer shall be compelled to employ a boss cutter; said boss cutter to be a member of the Amalgamated Window Glass Workers of America, and he shall divide and distribute the orders among the cutters.

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