The Double Edge of Labor's Sword: Discussion and Testimony on Socialism and Trade-unionism Before the Commission on Industrial RelationsSocialist Party, National Office, 1914 - 191 pages |
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The Double Edge of Labor's Sword Morris Hillquit,Samuel Gompers,Max S. Hayes No preview available - 1914 |
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Page 178 - Such measures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism are but a preparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of government, in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of industry, and thus come into their rightful inheritance.
Page 94 - By securing to every worker a rest period of not less than a day and a half in each week.
Page 118 - The intelligent, common-sense workmen prefer to deal with the problems of to-day, the problems with which they are bound to contend if they want to advance, rather than to deal with a picture and a dream which...
Page 3 - That the commission shall inquire into the general condition of labor in the principal industries of the United States including agriculture, and especially in those which are carried on in corporate forms; into existing relations between employers and employees ; into the effect of industrial conditions on public welfare and into the rights and powers of the community to deal therewith; into the conditions of sanitation and safety of...
Page 28 - Socialists call the attention of their brothers in the labor unions to the vital importance of the task of organizing the unorganized, especially the immigrants and the unskilled laborers, who stand in greatest need of organized protection and who will constitute a great menace to the progress and welfare of organized labor, if they remain neglected. The Socialist Party will ever be ready to co-operate with the labor...
Page 43 - The American Federation of Labor has numbers, but the capitalist class do not fear the American Federation of Labor; quite the contrary. The capitalist papers here in this very city at this very time are championing the cause of pure and simple unionism. Since this convention met there has been nothing in these papers but a series of misrepresentations. (Applause). If we had met instead in the interest of the American Federation of...
Page 96 - English history when the government and the courts in quarter sessions established wages. During periods when there was a dearth of workmen and employers offered higher wages, both the workmen and employers were brought into court and punished by imprisonment and physical mutilation because the one asked, received, or demanded, and the other was willing to offer, or did pay, higher wages.
Page 97 - I/., there was a great diversion of views. I am betraying no confidence when I say that. The official decision of the convention was that the subject was worthy of further discussion and consideration. In my judgment the proposal to establish by law a minimum wage for...
Page 117 - ... movement they have received and are receiving a larger share of the product of their labor than they ever did in the history of modern society. Mr. HILLQUIT. Then one of the functions of organized labor is to increase the share of the workers in the product of their labor, is that correct?
Page 119 - Mr. Hillquit (interrupting) : Inconvenient? Mr. Gompers: No, I will tell you what it is, it is a question prompted to you, and is an insult. Mr. Hillquit: It is not a question prompted to me. Mr. Gompers: It is an insult. Mr. Hillquit: Why? Why, Mr. Gompers? Mr. Gompers: To insinuate that the men and women in the American Federation of Labor movement are acting blindly from day to day. Mr. Hillquit : I have not insinuated — Mr. Gompers (interrupting) : Your question implies it. Mr. Hillquit: I...