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Revolutionary departures for a French Bill of Rights were economic guarantees (following the pattern of the Soviet Rus sian Constitution): the right of every citizen to a job, to a livelihood if he is incapacitated and cannot work, to private property acquired "through work and savings." But private property is also curbed: "every undertaking whose exploitation has, or acquires, the character of a public service or of a monopoly in fact must become the property of the community." With this provision, nationalization of key industries is constitutionally sanctioned...
...complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
...deny that ricksha pulling violates the principles of humanity and economics; its elimination is sure to come. But the 400,000 ricksha men have no knowledge of any other livelihood. If ricksha pulling is unwisely abolished, they and their families will starve...
...know that this is not an easy way to solve the wage problem, but it is the sound way. . . . Labor is the best customer management has, and management is the source of labor's livelihood. Both are wholly dependent on each other, and the country is dependent on both of them...
...shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...