Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...popular feeling against picketing and interfering with non-union workers. This is, of course, a great mistake on the part of such unions as allow it, and it is fortunate that its instances are rare. Most of the trouble between strikers and scabs is not with the honest workman desiring only his day's wages, but with professional strike breakers--men who are transported from one strike area to another, and who are paid enormously increased wages to take a sporting chance in a picketed district...
...seemed even in college days when Professor Taussig tries to simplify it for our benefit. To many the Tariff is the one safeguard we have to balance the difference between the cost of production abroad and in this country, thus protecting our manufacturing industries and enabling the American workman to get better wages and live on a higher plane than his fellow workman in Europe. Today, the middle West is urging the imposition of Tariff duties on products of nature such as oil, cotton, wool, hides and other agricultural products, claiming that the day for protection of manufactured goods alone...
...Seville", after languishing for a century and a quarter in a remote Irish castle, has been found, neglected, unwashed, and uncared for and now brushed up and tidy again is about to resume his rightful place in the galleries. Only a day or so ago a Nova Scotia workman stopped in at a little shop to buy a picture which had taken his fancy. After taking it home and cleaning it, he found an entirely new surface revealed, declared now to be a Rembrandt, and therefore worth thousands...
...cannot go flack to the early days of capitalistic economics and simply prohibit all strikes by law. Theoretically, every workman ought to be free to quit work when he pleases-no matter if he does so alone, or in company with all the workers in his industry. Practically he is not free; the action of one economic group is no longer without immediate and vital effect on the others...
...therefore, the present-day workman chooses to strike his balance at eight hours, he is fully entitled to do so. But he must be content with the resulting return; he has no right to expect nine and ten hours' product for only, eight hours' work. This is what he all too frequently falls to see, but the fault is his and not that of the theory of wages. "The demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted...