Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members will please take notice that the arrangement with the Co-operative carpenter is for labor only, not for material used...
...Washington Gladden who preaches to us at Appleton Chapel to-morrow night, comes directly from Yale where he has been delivering a course of lectures on Social Economy. Dr. Gladden's name is so inseparably connected with the labor cause that to call attention to his work in that cause seems superfluous. He is a Williams graduate and spent the first part of his graduate life in North Adams, but six miles from Williamstown, as pastor of one of the oldest churches of that town Undoubtedly, it was the spirit of this great manufacturing centre which first called his attention...
...Harvard Union last evening a very interesting discussion took place upon the subject of the Labor Movement in American Politics. Messrs. Burdett and McAfee argued for the affirmative, while Messrs. Hansen and Goodale of the Law School upheld the negative side of the question. In the course of the debate, several interesting economic facts were brought forward. Thus one of the speakers alluded to the fact that 85 per cent. of the total product of the German Empire is distributed among persons having an income of less that $500 a year. Reliable statistics prove that the receipts of the laboring...
...second number of the Quarterly Journal of Economics made its appearance yesterday. The first article is "An Historical Sketch of the Knights of Labor," by Carroll D. Wright. The account is a detailed one, confessedly containing little philosophy, but well stored with facts and annals which are interesting and valuable. We believe that the story of the foundation of the order, has never before been made public. The sketch is written with an enthusiasm which, leading the reader to a plane of idealism, appeals to the sympathetic nature, arousing it to a better appreciation of the ills of the "working...
...Harvard Union meets this even in Sever 11 at 7.30 o'clock. The question for debate will be: "Resolved, That the Labor movement in American Politics should be supported." The regular disputants are: aff. C. H. Burdett, '88; French McAfee, sp.; neg., O. R. Hassen, L.S., J. McG. Goodale...