Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...means of controlling the greatest share of material products was fast giving way to the consideration of work and especially of useful co-operation as a means of service to mankind. He took up the question of president-day industrial problems and showed that the interests of capital and labor were identical in many respects such as labor legislation for the equalization of risk between employer and workman and again in the case of compensation for injury to employee. He pointed out that the lowering of the wage limit was due to the entrance of women in to the wage...
...closing the speaker mentioned the evils of child labor and the advantages of the public vocational schools in launching young workers on their way to employment...
...first great accomplishment of the Roosevelt administration was the establishment of the department of commerce and labor, a step which created at the time much unfavorable comment, but which has already demonstrated its worth and beneficence. Following this came the great railroad legislation of 1906, and then the laws for the conservation of the nation's resources, protecting the country against the timber thieves and the mineral operators. But greater than any of these was the canal legislation, the realization of an aspiration of the American people hundreds of years old. Theodore Roosevelt was the man who got these measures...
...regard to checking graft than the United States and France. What has been done in Berlin certainly ought to be done in San Francisco, and there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be done. The trouble in this country is that there is a general fight against the labor problem instead of a desire to solve it. If America would become less pugilistic and more analytic there is no doubt but that the great problem of labor would become insignificantly simple. Then with labor simplified, graft and corruption would practically cease. All that labor is waiting...
...graduate of Williams College and the Columbia Law School. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1896 to 1899, and has subsequently served on the United States Civil Service Commission. From 1903 to 1907 he was commissioner of corporations in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and in 1907 he became Secretary of the Interior...