Word: basic
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...opinion than fact, or merely the result of blustering intimidation. Therefore, immediately our plan of representation was adopted, we set out, through the General Committee, to determine a sound and fair basis of wage. This committee drew up a scale of rates for hourly workers, and a list of basic rates for piece-workers, consistent with the relative amount of skill and intelligence for the average man involved for the work in each group. The resulting arrangement was acceptable to all because, through the representation of both company and employees, light was thrown into the remotest corners of the plant...
...rates once established, disputes soon arose over the individual piece prices, employees contending that it was impossible to earn the basic rate agreed upon with the prices set on certain operations and foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...
...Massachusetts also, the creation of a state police force is being encouraged. The object of the House Bill No. 280 is to perform one of the most basic aims and distinctive functions of the government, namely, the protection of citizens living in the rural districts, where there are at present over 300,000 with totally inadequate police protection. This bill asks that an initial expenditure of $100,000 and an annual sum of $300,000 he provided for the establishment of a police force similar to those in New York and Pennsylvania. When hardly a week passes without the perpetration...
President Charles W. Eliot, the second speaker at the dinner, declared that he had generally thought of himself as a liberal, and as an advocate of mental, social, and religious freedom for everyone. He further stated, as a basic proposition, that the American institutions are safe now and in the longest possible future...
Many think of West Point as a machine for the production of professional soldiers. This betrays ignorance of the facts. While training at the Academy fits men especially for the various phases of the military profession, it has as its basic ideal good citizenship. Besides his study of military affairs, the cadet is instructed in those subjects making for a well-rounded mind, which is the first essential for successful citizenship. The extent of the Point's success in achieving its military purpose, which the report specifies as: "--to give to all cadets a broad conception of all the branches...