Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Pickering makes in his introductory address to the President, an urgent appeal for money, and details some of the pressing needs of the Observatory, among which is the demand for new fire-proof buildings. In particular is it essential that the library of 29,393 volumes and pamphlets, one of the most complete of its kind in the country, should be protected from fire...
...rights of the employer were then considered in detail. It was claimed that his right to employ whom he chooses had been denied by the trade unions. In proof of this, statistics for the last twenty years were given, and reference made to the thousands of cases where employers have been compelled to surrender to employees...
...been a general tendency to invade these rights, and the thousands of injunctions protecting nonunion men from interference, the great mass of legal decisions of the past twenty years, affirming the right to work, and the fact that nearly every state has specific laws against violence and intimidation is proof that this tendency toward the violation of the rights of non-union workingmen has constantly expressed itself. This tendency need not always express itself in violence, but may do so in peaceful policies, as in the closed shop. Most American courts have held the "Closed Shop" illegal, yet there...
...them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support of eighty-five per cent of the American wage-earners, is strong proof of our contention,--namely, that trade-unionism for the past twenty years has pursued unwise methods, has violated rights fundamental to our whole social structure, has fostered a spirit of selfish tyranny, has sought to dominate the industrial world, and has placed its own interests before those of the whole...
...proof-reading should be better...