Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...considering the application of Christ's principles regarding the rich, the question naturally arises, is poverty essential to true discipleship? A superficial examination tends to show that it is; for there have been few modern labor agitators who have condemned wealth in more severe terms than does the New Testament...
After the settlement of the Cape by the Dutch East India Company, affairs rapidly went from bad to worse. A harsh rule, combined with slavery and forced labor, soon drove out many of the Dutch inhabitants, who worked northward and finally settled down in the Transvaal. A large French Huguenot element had come in at this time, and as a result nearly two thirds of the Boers today are of French descent...
...account of the various means of saving expense and of using to the best advantage the labor and capital employed, the combinations might sell their products below competitive rates. Experience, however, has shown that in most cases the larger organizations have secured sufficient control of the market to enable them to raise their prices, thus making consumers suffer for the benefit of stockholders. This has been the result of the organization of the American Sugar Refining Co., the Standard Oil Co., the American Tin Plate Co., and the American Steel and Wire...
Question: "Resolved, That Labor Unions are a benefit to the laboring classes." Affirmative: E.D. Peterson, E.C. Littig and P.P. Merrill.--Negative: H.B. Wells, L.E. More and H.P. Williams...
Question: "Resolved, That Labor Unions are a benefit to the laboring classes." Affirmative: E.D. Peterson, E.C. Littig and P.P. Merrill.--Negative: H.B. Wells, L.E. More and H.P. Williams...