Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question for the next debate, on January 8, is: "Resolved, That the product of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market." Affirmative--H. W. Hahn, E. F. Mann, W. M. Angle. Negative--A. Black, A. King, R. A. Dean...
...question for December 18 is: "Resolved, That the product of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in open market." Affirmative--H. W. Hahn, E. F. Mann, W. M. Angle. Negative--A. Black, A. King, R. A. Dean...
...Dripps summed up for Princeton. He reasserted the demand for the unskilled laborer and the necessity that there shall be a surplus of labor if there is always to be the proper supply. Better to have too many men than not enough, and better to have Southern Europeans in the sweat shops than Germans or Americans. The affirmative is arguing for the ideal system. We demand that they shall give us one definite method for a greater restriction...
...which may be proposed would do more good than harm. They have proposed two tests. The illiterate test would shut out a large number from northern and western Europe. The educational test would shut out 44,000 each year from Southeastern Europe. This would cause a vacancy in the labor market and skilled laborers would be forced downward and be compelled to do unskilled labor...
...Parke, following for the affirmative, restated the question, and said that it did not demand a specific remedy, but only a discussion of evils and an attempt to remedy them. The people from Southeastern Europe have not benefitted the country. They have overstocked the unskilled labor market and lowered the standard of living, especially in the mining regions where English-speaking miners have been forced into destitution and misery. The affirmative does not present a capitation or an educational test alone, but an alternative one which will allow skilled laborers to enter. This will satisfy the economic need...