Word: laborators
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Labor on courts...
...protection, if high protection affects wages at all it must affect them through the amount of capital distributed in wages. (2) Yet protection diminishes the amount of capital distributed in wages for two reasons: (a) The productiveness of industry being less, the product to be divided between capital and labor is less-Wells' Practical Economics, p. 135; (b) and also the proportion in which that produced is divided is less favorable to labor. (3) Evil effect of limiting the sale of commodities to a domestic market-Wells' Practical Economics...
...outdoor life, and content to live far from civilization in a condition resembling savagery. Railroads are beginning to employ geologists, who find their work in discovering and helping to develop the natural resources of the country through which the road runs. Still another field which is awaiting skillfully directed labor, is found in the quarries, which have never been properly or economically worked in this country. The opportunities for teachers of geology are few, and with one or two exceptions the pay is poor. The positions for engineers are more numerous than for geologists. That branch of engineering known...
...Subsidies will restore the hammer to the shioyard, develop commerce, and prove a boon to American labor-Report of select committee, 1882, p 109; H. A. Hill's American Shipping...
...crimson come out victorious. The lacrosse team has been hard at work, and if diligence in practice and faithfulness in training count for anything, we may certainly hope to greet our team as victors, after the game on Saturday. One of the disadvantages under which they labored last year, was playing on strange grounds, surrounded by spectators anxious to see them beaten, and this year that disadvantage is happily removed, and this year they will play in the midst of friends, anxious to see them win. The contest this year is a critical point in the existence of lacrosse...