Trade Unions: Their Origin and Objects, Influence and EfficacyK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1884 - 188 oldal |
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acknowledged action advance of wages advantage agricultural labourers Amalga Amalgamated Society amongst amount arbitration artisans associations attempt benefit better Black Death branch Bricklayers capital capitalist Carpenters cause cent century colliers combination condition cost cotton council delegates demand dispute district Edward VI employers and employed England existence fact factory farmers favour Federation Frederic Harrison Friendly Societies funds give guilds high wages improvement increase industry influence instance J. S. Mill Joseph Arch justice London manufactures masters means meeting miners nation natural non-unionists object obtain oppression organization paid Parliament present price of coal principle profits prosperity protection question raise wages rate of wages reduction refused result rules serfs Sheffield outrages shillings a week similar statute taken tendency thing Thomas Burt tion trade societies Trade Union Congress trade unionists union secretaries villein villenage weavers West Yorkshire workmen
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150. oldal - Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
83. oldal - I have a far other and far brighter vision before my gaze. It may be but a vision, but I will cherish it. I see one vast Confederation stretching from the frozen North in unbroken line to the glowing South, and from the wild billows of the Atlantic, westward to the calmer waters of the Pacific main — and I see one people, and one law, and one language, and one faith, and over all that wide continent, the home of freedom, and a refuge for the oppressed of every race and of every clime.
181. oldal - King of two hands, he does his part In every useful toil and art; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
16. oldal - The rich are ever striving to pare away something further from the daily wages of the poor by private fraud and even by public law, so that the wrong already existing (for it is a wrong that those from whom the State derives most benefit should receive least reward) is made yet greater by means of the law of the State.
78. oldal - ... amount of wages which the demand for their labour would justify, unless, in vernacular phrase, they stood out for it: and how can they stand out for terms without organized concert?
21. oldal - The liberty of operatives was still further restricted at the close of the eighteenth century, by an Act of Parliament which declared to be illegal, all contracts, except between masters and men, for obtaining advances of wages, altering the usual time of working, decreasing the quantity of work. It is difficult to conceive, in the face of all this, how the condition of the working man has improved in the slightest degree.
47. oldal - ... increase with experience, and their influence will extend as education becomes general. It is for employers to say whether they will bow to a necessity graciously, or, as hitherto, goad to the last extremity. Day by day the men are becoming less and less dependent upon the caprice of employers. Their demand for just laws cannot longer be disregarded, and even now they are able to show that they are as competent as any other class to take care of their own personal habits and requirement«. The...
133. oldal - ... be felt for many years, notwithstanding any stimulus which it may give during one generation to the increase of people. When, indeed, the improvement is of this signal character, and a generation grows up which has always been used to an improved scale of comfort, the habits of this new generation in respect to population become formed upon a higher minimum, and the improvement in their condition becomes permanent.
109. oldal - Frederic Harrison, Henry Crompton, WT Thornton, and others], a large array of literary talent, which is prompt in their service on all occasions of controversy. They have their own Press as a field for those exertions. Their writers have free access to some of the leading London journals. They organize frequent meetings at which paid speakers inoculate the working classes with their ideas, and urge them to dictate terms to candidates for Parliament .... They have a standing Parliamentary Committee,...
157. oldal - Strikes, therefore, and the trade societies which render strikes possible, are for these various reasons not a mischievous, but on the contrary, a valuable part of the existing machinery of society.