Word: redress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...unfair, grasping. and aggressive policy towards the United States:- Speech of Sneator Hale, June 13, 1888; (d) the outrages against American fishermen were prompted by a desire to drive the United States into the treaty:- Speech of Senator Frye, Congressional Record, vol. 19, part 5, p. 4698; (e) no redress is given to our fishermen by the treaty for illegal seizures:- Speech of Senator Hoar, July...
...work. In the paper on factory life, the writer gives an account of the practice of black-listing mill hands prominent in labor organizations. If the testimony of the unfortunate black-listed men is true (and there seems little reason to doubt it) they have fearful grievances which demand redress. We lose sight of the fact that in these days of striking laborers, that the employers are not always the most upright of men. The employers are not the only sufferers and the claims of the employed must be regarded before labor troubles will cease...
...year accounts are audited by a committee and found to be all right. If the expenses have seemed too large to any contributor or he system wrong, all he can do is to refuse to contribute the next year. Thus if the club has run into debt the only redress for those who support it is to run it still further into debt, by refusing to contribute. The ineffectiveness of this method of redress is therefore apparent at once, and there seems to be no other method which can be employed. The contributors are at the mercy of the manager...
...Crook believes in giving them the franchise as the one means of making them law-abiding citizens and raising them from their present degrading situation. As the case stands now, they can get no redress for wrongs committed against them by white...
Article 25 begins, "The aim of these Articles of Agreement is to secure truthfulness, prompt redress of grievances, fair treatment for all, and that education and self-restraint which come from participation in and submission to a representative government...