Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much their own sense of personal injustice, but that of the great mass of womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...
...about 100 buildings, erected almost entirely by the students. These physical forces are not an end but a means for a great purpose. The negro masses had a consuming ambition for education, but along with this was a feeling that once educated it would be disgraceful to do manual labor any longer. As cooking, farming, carpentering, and other practical occupations, were the chief things taught at Tuskegee, this feeling was one of the chief obstacles to its early growth. Now, however, this old prejudice has largely disappeared and the negro has learned the great difference between being worked and working...
...that many constructions of last year: the field, road, hangars, parkway, fences and so on were permanent; and that no exorbitant guarantees were paid to the aviators, this year, the prize money being the main inducement to competitors. The gate receipts at Nashua, Worcester, and Providence were made on Labor Day, when the cross country flight for a $10,000 prize took place...
...Craig Prize. The new play is a little melodramatic. Where the first dealt with a doctor's family and his friends, Miss McFadden's play leaves polite society after the first act for the cotton mills of South Carolina. Though its theme is not primarily the abuses of child labor, they have a considerable importance in the drama. Last year the four acts of the prize play passed in only two rooms. This year the play will call for four settings, including the interior of a spinning room in a cotton mill and the exterior of the factory. There will...
...child abducted nine years before. Driven to desperation, she leaves her home to try to do what the detectives have failed in, and, of course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows much more vividly the problem and the horrors of child slavery than many another playwright...