Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...noon yesterday, one of the workmen engaged in putting in the new window at Memorial Hall fell from the scaffolding to the ground. Although the man was badly shaken up, no serious injury resulted...
...labor. The working men are just beginning to find out who pays the import taxes; they know that their house rent is increased to enrich the lumber merchants of Maine, and that the limitation of the market by protection strengthens the "trusts" which have closed factories and thrown the workmen out of employment. One of the greatest dangers of our times is the growing tendency of the laborers to look to the State for aid, as they see no reason why laws should not be made to favor them as the tariff does the manufacturer, and this must be checked...
...college workmen and many of the assistants are given a holiday today...
...years an eight-hour working day will be sufficient to supply the needs of the people, because of: (a) improvements in machinery, and (b) greater efficiency of workmen. Atkinson's Margin of Profits, p. 24. Report of N. J. Bureau of Statistics, 1886, pp. 228-35, 238-44. Schoenhof's Industrial Situation...