Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Victor S. Clark, of the United States Department of Labor, will speak in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Tariff Policy of Australia." The recently formed Australian commonwealth has adopted a protective tariff which contains some very unusual features, more especially some which are designed to ensure to laborers substantial benefit from the higher prices which the protected capitalists get. Dr. Clark was engaged from 1902 to 1906 in investigating economic and social conditions in Australia, as an agent of the Labor Department, and is an authority on economics in that country. His investigations...
...Child Labor and the Republic," reprinted from the annals for 1907 of the American Academy of Political and Social Science...
...publication of The American Nation, -- a monumental work in twenty seven stout octavo volumes, --under the general editorship of Professor Hart, marks the first very serious attempt to apply the principle of the division of labor to a narrative of the annals of the American people. Despite the elaborate scale on which the undertaking was projected, the whole series has been issued from the press within the comparatively short space of less than four years, an unusual achievement for an enterprise of its kind. Upon the general editor has devolved the task of delimiting the scope of the various numbers...
There are no considerations of higher import than the just relations of capital and labor. The organization of capital, which is a normal and logical development of our times, should welcome reasonable laws which place wholesome restraints upon its activities, so that through competition or otherwise it will not be induced or forced to overstep the safeguards of industrial rights and block the highways of opportunity for the humblest citizen of the land. There can be no liberty without opportunity, and to the extent that opportunity is abridged, whether by the state or by cor- porate power, it is denial...
...head of this Executive Department, charged with the administration of some of the laws affecting the commerce and labor, I am deeply sensible, not only of the close mutual relations of capital and labor, but of their respective rights, duties and limitations...