Word: prating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should like to say a few words about the worker's attitude. You prate about greater production for more wages. The worker has heard that old gag until it wearies him. Let me give an instance. In a certain corporation the piece work system is used. The prices are so not that the worker has to turn out a larger quantity of work to make a fair wage. This corporation is always clamoring for greater production. If a worker does turn out more than his average production his prices are cut so that he must maintain the greater production...
...noble words of this youthful martyr ought to recall visions of Madame Roland and Sidney Carton, but somehow even the dry press dispatches summon a wry smile to our lips when they prate of our newest Kansan soviet...