Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...organizations have a two-fold object: the destruction of the trades unions and the establishment of the open shop which admits union and non-union men alike. It is questionable, however, whether the open shop is beneficial to the working classes. It results in the introduction of cheap foreign labor, and the lowering of wages. The closed shop, however, is distasteful to the public, Since it debars the free competition of high who are willing to work for low wages...
...Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will speak on Thursday, April 27, under the auspices of the Social Service Committee on "The Industrial Conditions of Public Happiness." The time and place of the lecture will be announced later...
...entry of Thayer was no better than the other Yard buildings in this respect. There was but one shower bath room, and the only toilet room was in the basement. The interior of the entry has been so thoroughly gutted that there should be but little extra expense or labor required for the installation of an adequate toilet and bath room on each floor. Hot and cold running water also might well be provided for each suite. Electricity is far more convenient than gas, and when properly wired, safer. It could easily...
Beginning with a review of the present status of the labor problem, the speaker pointed out some notable tendencies of the past few years, showing that at present we have in this country in many industrial centres "an approximate monopoly of capital facing an approximate monopoly of labor." The result, said Mr. Baker, is either a deadlock of industry, or an evil development of "trade conspiracies" in which, as neither employer nor trade unions are willing to submit, the people are inevitably robbed...
...must come from the government, must finally be used to bring the two parties to terms. The conflict, therefore, immediately becomes a political affair in which dishonest means are often used to win the favor of the officers of the law. To conciliate these two great industrial forces of labor and capital, organized as monopolies with a perfection never before reached, is a momentous problem which will well serve as the test of a democracy...