Word: labors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...system, or 42 years in the case of the electric light system, the city may take over the management itself or intrust it again to a corporation. In England the subject of municipal ownership is not really the point for dispute, but the question of the employment of municipal labor is the pivot on which the controversy must turn...
...also among the most prominent delegates at the recent National Peace and Arbitration Conference, held in New York City, last week. While there he spoke before the Society for Ethical Culture on "Peace Movement," and delivered addresses before the peace meetings in the Broadway Tabernacle, the Labor Meeting at the Cooper Union, and the Children's Meeting in Carnegle Hall...
From 1889 to 1889 he held the positions of assistant and chief editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette, and in 1895 began editing the "Masterpiece Library of Penny Poets, Novels and Prose Classics." Among his writings are "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon," "The Truth about Russia," "The Labor War in the United States," and "The Conference at the Hague." Possibly his best known literary achievement has been his founding the English, American and Australasian editions of the "Review of Reviews...
...Monday evening, April 15, the international views of the Peace Movement will be discussed. The speaker for America will be the Honorable Oscar S. Strauss, Secretary of Commerce and Labor; for France, Baron d'Estournelles de Constant; for England, Sir Robert Cranston, ex-Lord provost of Edinburgh; for Germany, Professor Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard; for Belgium, Baron Descamps, the secretary of state; for Holland, Mr. Maarten Maartens...
...particular as far as possible to investigate the conditions under which the goods that they purchase are made. She showed the difficulty the Consumers' League had experienced in attempting to pass a bill through the federal legislature, that was finally declared unconstitutional, which should prevent goods made under child labor in one state from passing into another. Owing to the great demand for white factory hands in the South and to a lack of inspectors, conditions are such that large numbers of very young children are found employed in factories. It is the purpose of the Consumers' League to lessen...