Word: trade
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This spirit has also manifested itself by a constant disregard of the fundamental legal rights of freedom of contracts and of personal security. Any supposed good accomplished by trade unionism cannot for a moment outweigh the evils resulting from the subversion of these basal rights...
...affirmative case rests, the speaker said, on an attempt to prove that trade unionism has invaded the rights (1) of the employer, (2) of the non-union men, (3) of the general public. These three points the three speakers would endeavor to prove...
...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...
Rabenold opened the debate for Harvard. He contended that the discussion turned upon the history of what trade-unionism has done. First and foremost it has given the working man the power to say something in determining the condition of employment. In the conditions of modern industry, it is readily seen that-the working man, standing alone, counts for little, if anything, as a bargainer. The working man has but one thing to sell, and that is his labor. Capital controls the machinery, without which that labor can bring no results. The working man is thus at a complete disadvantage...
...Rabenold continued--the affirmative contend that in doing this, trade-unionism has made mistakes, and that certain evils have resulted. It is agreed that many mistakes have been committed and that many evils have-resulted, but the affirmative must do more than point to incidental evils in order to show a general tendency of trade-unionism detrimental to the best interests of the country. They have said that strikes have occurred in trade unions, but they have not shown that the best interests of the country would have been subseryed if there had been no strikes at all. They must...