Trade Guilds of Europe: Reports from the Consuls of the United States on the Trade Guilds of Europe, and the Laws and Regulations by which They are GovernedU.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 - 331 pages |
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Page 56 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 321 - ... shall be paid at his decease, and may from time to time revoke or vary such nomination by a writing under his hand similarly delivered or sent ; and on receiving satisfactory proof of the death of a nominator, the trade union shall pay to the nominee the amount due to the deceased member not exceeding the sum aforesaid.
Page 162 - Act, or the nominee, executor, administrator, or assignee of a member thereof, or any person whatsoever, by false representation or imposition obtain possession of any moneys, securities, books, papers, or other effects of such trade union, or, having the same in his possession, wilfully withhold or fraudulently misapply the same, or wilfully apply any part of the same to purposes other than those expressed or directed in the rules of such trade union, or any part thereof...
Page 321 - ... (unless such officer or servant is the husband, wife, father, mother, child, brother, sister, nephew, or niece of the nominator...
Page 117 - But, great as has been the progress of foreign countries, and keen as is their rivalry with us in many important branches, we have no hesitation in stating our conviction, which we believe to be shared by continental manufacturers themselves, that, taking the state of the arts of construction and the staple manufactures as a whole, our people still maintain their position at the head of the industrial world.
Page 122 - France and Belgium until the people of those countries became impatient of the lamentable absence of primary instruction on the part of vast numbers of the rural, and in some instances, of the town population ; an evil which large State subventions alone could cure within any reasonable period of time. With the exception of France, there is no European country of the first rank that has an Imperial budget for education comparable in amount with our own.
Page 121 - Institute may be studied in this connection. Moreover, as evidencing the desire of the artisans themselves to obtain facilities for instruction both in science and art, we must not omit to mention the classes established and maintained by some of the leading cooperative societies. The Equitable Pioneers' Society of Rochdale has led the way in this, as in so many other social movements. It is much to be wished that the various trades' unions would also consider whether it is not incumbent on them...
Page 122 - How this combination is to be carried out will vary with the trade and wi^h the circumstances of the individual. In those cases in which theoretical knowledge and scientific training are of preeminent importance, as in the case of the manufacturer of fine chemicals, or in that of the metallurgical chemist, or the electrical engineer, the higher technical education may with advantage be extended to the age of twentyone or twenty-two.
Page 128 - Joule of the mechanical equivalent of heat, at once occur as examples. The Englishman is accustomed to seek for an immediate return ; and has yet to learn that an extended and systematic education up to, and including, the methods of original research, is now a necessary preliminary to the fullest development of industry.
Page 123 - The best preparation for technical study is a good modern secondary school of the types of the Manchester Grammar School, the Bedford Modern School, and the Allan Glen's Institution at Glasgow.