Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Immigrants are not needed. Pol. Scien. Quar., June, 1888, pp. 217-220. (a) The force of unskilled labor is large enough -T. V. Powderly, in N. Am. Rev., Aug., 1888. (b) Immigrants are largely unskilled laborers.-Quar. Journal of Economics, Vov. II, pp., 223-228; N. Am. Rev., January...
...Immigration does not increase the wealth of the country.- Pol. Sci. Quar., June, 1888, pp. 209-212. (a) The wealth that immigration brings into the country is less than that taken out.- T. V. Powderly, in "Journal of United Labor." (b) The value of the immigrant depends solely on the use that can be made of him.-Pol. Sci. Quar., June...
...Immigration lowers the standard of living.- Pol. Sci. Quar. June, 1888, pp. 221-225. (a) By cheap labor; (b) by willingness to live in a depraved condition.- T. V. Powderly, in United Labor Journal...
...measures suggested are vague and impracticable, e. g. Powderley's and Smith's suggestions; Powderly in North American Review for August, 1888; "A Menacing Irruption;" Nation, Vol XLV, pp. 108, 518; New York Post Dec. 24, 1887. (b) The present law on contract labor is easily evaded...
...last meeting requested the committee on government to "consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations regularly enough to warrant...