Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...thinking, the greatest social services which one man can render to his fellows are, first, improving their moral standards or the ideals which rule them, and secondly, improving the conditions of their daily labor. Tonight I ask your attention to the second of these forms of service...
...Unions should urge--limited associations of employees having a voice in the discipline of the works; collective discussion and bargaining concerning wages and hours of labor; a greater publicity about industrial conditions, and the publication of annual reports to government authorities. Organization of industrial society should not be in horizontal layers, but in vertical groups...
...Public interest and duty should require inspection of and public reports on the business of corporations, and prevention of unhealthy conditions of labor, the injurious working of children and women, and over-work, with protection of the individual against combined attack...
...Most mechanics and laborers take no pleasure in their occupations and look forward to their evenings, Sundays, and holidays as the only time for pleasure. One distinction between the civilized man and the savage is the former's capacity for contented labor...
Slavery and the slave trade, Professor DuBois said, began with the appearance at Lisbon in 1442 of 30 negro slaves These excited the cupidity of the Portuguese traders, who realized the superiority of negro labor over Indian labor in working the gold mines of America. The slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality...