Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...hundred new volumes, will be transferred, to the social ethics library on the south side of the second floor of Emerson Hall. Probably a large number of books will also be bought when Professor F. G. Peabody returns from Germany next year. Several hundred books from the German Workingmen's Insurance and from the German Imperial Statistical Office, formerly at the St. Louis Exposition, will also be placed in the library...
...winter classes at the Prospect Union will be begun during the week of October 16. Some thirty courses are offered in English and, the languages, Natural Science, History, Economics, Mathematics and commercial branches. The classes are made up of workingmen, drawn chiefly from the stores and factories of Cambridge. Among them are men of many different races, religious views and political parties, including a considerable number of socialists. The teachers, through the classes and the relationships which spring out of them are brought closely into contact with the students, thus coming to know something of the mental and moral makeup...
...Gompers stated that modern labor organizations are the legitimate successors of the trade guilds under the feudal regime; and he compared the condition of the workingmen who broke away from serfdom with that existing under our present free and competitive system of industry...
...introduction of the labor of women and children called forth protests from all thinking men. The reduction of the working day from fourteen or sixteen hours to twelve was met with the same arguments of the impending ruin of industry and the invasion of the rights of workingmen as are now leveled against the eight-hour day. But it would be difficult for any man to convince laborers that their liberties have been lessened by reason of those associations with their fellow men which secure to them higher wages and leisure for study, recreation, and home life...
...Gompers has been connected with workingmen's organizations for many years. He is responsible more than any other one man for the strength of labor unions in this country today. Believing that in unity workingmen have the strength to treat with their employers on a basis of equality he has persuaded a great number of unions to join the American Federation of Labor, of which with the exception of one year, he has been since 1882 the president...