Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more inclined to blame the prices and give the man his support in such an attitude. Furthermore, many employees believed it to be the general policy to compute the price at the rate which, in the opinion of the individual setting the price, was proper for the particular workman it involved. In this way, the prices were subject to all the vagaries and prejudices of human nature. Owing, also, to the uncertain status of the price setters, the final price was often but a poor compromise and the resulting inconsistency of the piece prices is apparent...
...biased judgment of the foreman was accepted, or that affecting conditions were overlooked was allayed. The question, also, whether spoiled work was accountable to the price being low or lack of proper supervision on the part of the foreman, was easily settled, for, the representative being himself a workman in the department, was more inclined to defend both himself and the price when poor supervision existed, the final result often proving to be a decided improvement all around...
...behind this movement do not intend to interfere in any way with the existing order of affairs between capital and labor. The college student will merely don old clothes, obtain a job, and then attend to it like any other workman in the shop. This will give him excellent opportunity to study at close range the actual conditions in laboring and industrial plants...
...dangerous a plotter against law and order. Indeed, the fate, of the would-be Italian Lenine is possibly an indication that Bolshevism is on the wane in Italy: Given a full dinner-pall and the mishaps of the "Russian Deputy" to chuckle over, the Italian workman will perhaps prove safe for democracy. As for Misiano, he will doubtless soon be on his way once more to his Russian fatherland. The Red Gods grant him a safe journey...
...unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living wage has led the unions to extremes. There have been occasions, as Elbert Hubbard remarked, when the workman was forced either to "carry a union card to take out an accident policy." Modern methods are perhaps less atrocious, but none the less stringent...