Word: wages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...early developments. The whole point of his article is that "man is made by nature for individual combat, not for drill or fighting en masse." Consequently he must be mechanically trained for soldiership, so that in the hour of actual test, his mind may be made free to wage "an intelligent warfare." Aside from statements like the following: "It is impossible to cultivate a soldierly posture without feeling the dignity of one's manhood," which he will pardon me for calling a little absurd--Mr. Allport's article seems to me extremely sound and valuable...
...fundamental principle of the social order that industry and commerce shall be run by managers competitively selected and wielding the power which comes from the control of privately owned property rather than by the flats of legislators politically influenced and selected. The fact that the act fixes wages instead of leaving it to the free contract of the parties violates this principle. On the other hand, it is equally a fundamental principle of the social order that information shall be obtainable for use by the government, the parties in interest, and the public for guidance in action. If the government...
When the conflicting aspects of the act are balanced, the predominant effect of the legislation is plainly to secure information by requiring an experiment to be made. In laying down an eight-hour day as the measure of a day's pay and requiring that wages be not reduced, the Act merely fixes the necessary outlines of the experiment. The commission is appointed so that the information obtained by the experiment may be intelligently presented. The fact that the operation of the Act is strictly limited to not more than eight months, is the strongest single fact which gives...
...retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems to me to be unintelligent. CECIL H. SMITH...
...constructive undertakings as the Constitutional Convention in this state would go by the board. The war against poverty and disease and evil would give place to a war against men. The large percentage of American industrial workers who are paid no more than $400 a year, when the living wage is $1,000, would continue the same living death. How can we decently visit such violent wrath upon the Germans, when their wrongs against Americans, are but a drop in the bucket compared with the unrighteous and dishonorable acts perpetrated daily with impunity upon Americans by Americans...