Word: employed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...oldest, and would like to have a better portrait of him than is possessed by the Union League, the Bar Association, or any other organization over which he has presided. We hope for such a portrait of Mr. Choate as the Players' Club has of Edwin Booth. To employ Sargent will probably require that the present subscriptions be doubled...
After graduation he entered the employ of the Laird, Norton Company, a lumber firm of which his father is a member; and about the first of May, 1894, he was made vice-president and superintendent of the Winona Lumber Company...
...saying that employers ignore associations of labor the gentlemen on the affirmative imply that in doing this they also ignore their employees. This is emphatically not so. There are few employers who deny an audience to any of their employees. When an employer deals with individual labor he is dealing directly with his employees, but when he treats with organized labor he is treating with a third party. An employer is naturally unwilling to discuss questions concerning his own trade with the representatives of totally different trades. In 1877, during the great railroad strikes, it was proved that the more...
Great organizations of capital, by buying up all the machines, force the workmen to come together for employment,. Abuses exist simply because there is an eternal contest between the employers and employees. The placing of irresponsible power in the hands of organizations of capitalists is certainly very unwise, for no one can hold irresponsible power without danger to the interests of others. It is impossible for an employer to deal with his employees individually and have his influence felt by all the men in his employ. It is a physical impossibility for a man to discuss a question with every...
...from the track. Pacing, if attempted, shall disqualify both competitor and pacemaker. All bicycle events and race meets of this association, or of clubs affiliated therewith, shall be held under the League of American Wheelmen sanction. In open handicap races held by clubs of this association such clubs shall employ the official handicapper of the League of American Wheelmen, and in races not specially provided for, shall be governed by League of American Wheelmen rules...