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...building will be 30 ft. wide by 60 ft. long and three stories high. It will be of plain brick and of slow burning or mill construction. F. B. Furbish is the contractor, and the price...
...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...
...about Cambridge in extremely inconvenient quarters, and in an unsettled condition anything but conducive to satisfactory work or to a happy frame of mind. If we could only get information from some source about the real state of the case we might make definite arrangements for the future. The contractor, the architect, the bursar, the president-some one might have an opinion which might be communicated and which it is unjust to withhold...
...Harvard by Lowell and Cumnock. It was decided that the two captains should go to Springfield and arrange definitely about the grounds. Gill and Cumnock spent a day in Springfield, and had the field staked out. A car penter gave his price for building temporary grand stands and a contractor roughly estimated the cost of putting the field in condition to play the game. Until the field is surveyed the exact cost cannot be obtained. It is expected that the whole expenditure will be about $700 and that amount will probably be raised by the citizens and hotels of Springfield...
...hinders the reformation of the prisoner, which should be the main object of penal institutions. (a) by transforming him into a money-making machine. (Illinois Labor Report for 1886, pp. 89 and 90). (b) by the predominant influence of the contractor, whose interest is opposed to reformation. (Ill. Report...