Word: wage
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...capital comprises a partnership, but the unfortunate name of service is still given to the share of one of the partners. We find the term on all hands; a standing obstacle to our progress. The great strikes that have arisen in this country, have not come from questions of wage, but from procedure. Why should the employers refuse to let their books be examined by their employees, except from that pride that comes from assuming mastership...
References: Mill, Chaps. on Wages; Ricardo, Chap. V, Wages; F. W. Taussig in Forum, Vol. VI, p. 167; Schoenhof, Labor, Wages and Tariff; Journal of Political Economy, Vol. IV, p. 166; A. S. Hewitt, Labor, Wages and Tariff; W. L. Garrison, Jr., Wages and Protection; D. A. Wells, Relation of Tariff to Wage...
...Does the wage fund theory offer any practical assistance to employers and employes in settling wage disputes...
...responsible for continuance of Turkish misrule.- (b) She is suspected as an interested power.- (c) An alliance with the United States would not remove this suspicion.- (B) We are under no obligation to defend the Christian faith.- (1) No religion is recognized in the Constitution.- (2) The power to wage war for religious purposes is not given to the government.- (3) America's great contribution to civilization has been non-interference in matters of religious faith (C. W. Eliot).- (C) It is not necessarily a duty to humanity.- (1) It might not have good results.- (2) It might be unsuccessful...
...their workingmen pupils. From this small beginning has grown year by year what is now almost an evening university, with nearly a hundred classes in elementary studies and in high school and college branches. These classes and the lectures were attended last year by more than six hundred wage earners, men of many nationalities and occupations. The teachers were, as they have always been, Harvard students who gave seventy-five of them, one evening or a part of an evening a week to this work. Lectures were delivered by many members of the Faculty, including President Eliot...