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Owing to the unusually long period of inclement weather, work on the buildings in the course of construction on the campus has been considerably retarded. The number of workmen has been reduced and, in consequence, the work thus far accomplished has taken considerable time...
...Carnegie Co. violated the workingmen's rights by an arbitrary reduction of wages. - (a). When the Co. was prosperous owing to new machinery: Pub. Opinion, July 9. (b). It refused to explain its actions: No. Amer., p. 361. (c). It did not allow the workmen any voice in the matter Ibid p. 371. (d). It refused arbitration: Ibid...
...Company used Pinkerton men unjustifiably. - (a). The men behaved in an ideal way in the conduct of the lockout: Her., July 1. (b). Frick engaged Pinkerton before the conferences with the workmen were broken: No. Amer. Rev., p. 359. (c). Pinkerton's men were not the representatives of law and order: Sen. Voorhees, Jul. 9. (d). The workmen defended their homes against an armed army of 300, threatening anarchy: Sen. Stewart, July...
...Company forced the introduction of non-union men. This was not fair to its workmen. - (a). Who had built up the town: No. Amer., p. 373. (b). Whose homes were there. (c). Who had contracted through the Ass'n to work for a certain time there: Ibid, 356. (d). The Co, broke our highest law - the moral...
...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...