Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contract system defeats the real purpose of penal institutions, the repression of crime by the reformation of the criminals.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 36, 37, 88 et. seq., 134-136; Report of the United States Labor Bureau (1886); Report of Charles F. Peck, New York commissioner, pp. 312; also...
...interests of the contractor are opposed to those of the State.- Report of the Illinois Labor Bureau...
...contract system brings the competition of convict labor with outside industries to a maximum point of severity.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor...
...This competition has often proved ruinous in particular occupations; profits and wages have fallen in a marked degree as a result of the low price of prison-made goods.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 94-97, 98 et. seq., 117, 118; Science, Vol. VII., pp. 117, 143, 168; United States Report on Convict Labor...
...Under the contract system the burden of supporting the convicts is unfairly distributed.- Report of the U. S. Labor Commissioner...