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... factories are idle , so must labor go idle , and while capital may find profitable investment in chan- nels not necessarily connected with manufactuses , the laborer can only live by labor . A few years more of strikes and ...
... factories are idle , so must labor go idle , and while capital may find profitable investment in chan- nels not necessarily connected with manufactuses , the laborer can only live by labor . A few years more of strikes and ...
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... factories , & c . , and thus helping to swell the general fund , while the single earning of the head of the family in Ireland as a general rule has to support the whole . The consul at Belfast says that with the prevalent rates of ...
... factories , & c . , and thus helping to swell the general fund , while the single earning of the head of the family in Ireland as a general rule has to support the whole . The consul at Belfast says that with the prevalent rates of ...
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... factories lie idle . If our manufacturers cannot run their establishments profitably - and capital will no more remain permanently invested unprofitably than will labor work for nothing - and pay the prevailing wages , our working ...
... factories lie idle . If our manufacturers cannot run their establishments profitably - and capital will no more remain permanently invested unprofitably than will labor work for nothing - and pay the prevailing wages , our working ...
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... factories lie idle . If our manufacturers cannot run their establishments profitably - and capital will no more remain permanently invested unprofitably than will labor work for nothing - and pay the prevailing wages , our working ...
... factories lie idle . If our manufacturers cannot run their establishments profitably - and capital will no more remain permanently invested unprofitably than will labor work for nothing - and pay the prevailing wages , our working ...
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... factories in 1878 compared with 1872 , '73 , '74 . Occupation . Monthly wages , 1878 . Monthly wages , 1872 , 73 , 74 . Blowers . $ 100 to $ 160 $ 56 to $ 65 Assistants 24 to 30 26 to 45 Stokers 40 to 50 20 to 24 Flatteners 36 to 40 24 ...
... factories in 1878 compared with 1872 , '73 , '74 . Occupation . Monthly wages , 1878 . Monthly wages , 1872 , 73 , 74 . Blowers . $ 100 to $ 160 $ 56 to $ 65 Assistants 24 to 30 26 to 45 Stokers 40 to 50 20 to 24 Flatteners 36 to 40 24 ...
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&c.-Continued acre agricultural laborers American amount annual annum average Belgium Blacksmiths board and lodging Bookbinders Bordeaux bread Bricklayers bullion Bushels business habits Carpenters centimes cents per day circulation coal Coffee COIN and BULLION consul cost of living cotton currency Daily wages paid DANISH WEST INDIES Dollars Domestic earn elsewhere specified employed employés ENDED JUNE 30 England Europe flour Foreign France Free of duty galls Germany gold and silver Government gutta-percha habits and systems Haikwan IMPORTED Included in Dutiable Indian corn industry Ireland iron issue joiners Journeymen Jute laboring classes manufactures Masons meat mechanics molasses month notes paper money piece-work pieces polished plate PORTS AND EXPORTS Potatoes pound PRINCIPAL railway rates of wages receive Scotland silver coin Sonneberg specified see Free Statement showing sugar taels Tinsmiths tion Tons TOTAL EX trade UNITED STATES CONSULATE week Weekly wages Wheat women workingmen workmen
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Page 3 - States, that whenever by reason of unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages of persons, or rebellion against the authority of the government of the United States, it shall become impracticable in the judgment of the President to enforce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the laws of the United States...
Page 382 - ... conditioned personally to appear at the said sessions, and to try such appeal, and to abide the judgment of the court thereon, and to pay such costs as shall be by the court awarded...
Page 3 - President to call forth the militia of any or all the States, and to employ such parts of the land and naval forces of the United States as -he may deem necessary to enforce the faithful execution of the laws of the United States, or to suppress such rebellion, in whatever State or Territory thereof the laws of the United States may be forcibly opposed, or the execution thereof forcibly obstructed.
Page 2 - ... shall be fined not more than ten thousand dollars and imprisoned not more than two years; and shall, moreover, be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit, or trust under the Government of the United States. Any such contract or agreement may, at the option of the President, be declared void.
Page 365 - A woman, young person, or child must not be allowed to work between the fixed and traversing part of any self-acting machine while the machine is in motion by the action of steam, water, or other mechanical power. (4) A factory in which a traversing carriage is allowed to run out in contravention of this section shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this Act...
Page 380 - ... by post, shall be deemed to have been served and received respectively at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving such service or sending it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post.
Page 1 - GENTLEMEN: I have maturely considered the bill proposing to authorize "a subscription of stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company...
Page 384 - Quarries," that is to say, any place not being a mine, in which persons work in getting slate, stone, coprolites or other minerals ; (27)
Page 381 - Where the occupier of a factory or workshop is charged with an offence against this Act, he shall be entitled upon information duly laid by him to have any other person whom he charges as the actual offender brought before...
Page 23 - An act to repeal existing duties on tea and coffee," of a bill entitled "An act to reduce existing taxes," containing a general revision, reduction, and repeal of laws imposing import duties and internal taxes, is in conflict with the true intent and purpose of that clause of the Constitution which requires that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; and that, therefore, said substitute for House bill No.