Word: laborers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suggest a light that shall show the way out. Every where the growth of Christianity has been a steady progress toward freedom. The essential beauty of civilization is charity. Freedom is the essential thing of civilization. Now freedom has brought no more substantial result than the substitution of free labor for slave. Nevertheless the industrial system based upon freedom contains within itself elements which threaten its existence. The adjustment of the demands of the free laborer is the chief problem of humanity today and the Pope's Encyclical, points the solution...
...question we must discuss is first, to state the nature of the industrial problem and then see if we can find any light to solve that problem. The industrial problem now is the labor problem. Can the problem of recompense to labor be solved peaceably? It can be in charity, as the Pope says, and in charity alone. Not charity in the sense of alms-giving. It is the charity, that teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves. Justice is the only enduring end to peace. Thus our problem is the discovery of the true principle of justice...
...interests of the laborer and his employer are not hostile. They operate together. If the interests of capital and labor are identical, why do disputes increase? They increase because of misconceptions of fundamental laws and of the relation between employer and employee. The cooperation of labor and capital comprises a partnership, but the unfortunate name of service is still given to the share of one of the partners. We find the term on all hands; a standing obstacle to our progress. The great strikes that have arisen in this country, have not come from questions of wage, but from procedure...
...last weekly meeting of the Freshman Debating Club until after the mid-year examinations was held last evening in Sever 11. The question debated was: "Resolved, That the products of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market." The attendance was slim and the speaking rather disappointing. Each side failed to arrange its arguments in anything like methodical order and there was a deplorable absence of rebuttal. Perhaps the selection of a very uninteresting question was partly the cause for the poor showing made. The negative had clearly the better preparation and received the decision...
...regular meeting of the Freshman Debating Club will be held this evening in Sever 11 at 7 o'clock. The question for debate is, "Resolved, That the products of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market." Affirmative-A. Walter and E. P. Johnes; negative-R. M. Brown and W. T. Foster...