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... labor was lost , was 24,553 years , 3,639 years more than we obtained by the above calculation . It will be evident , therefore , that our estimate is sufficiently low . It is further shown by Dr. Jarvis , that , during the same year ...
... labor was lost , was 24,553 years , 3,639 years more than we obtained by the above calculation . It will be evident , therefore , that our estimate is sufficiently low . It is further shown by Dr. Jarvis , that , during the same year ...
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... Labor has been such as to greatly paralyze its work . The very inception of the idea of creating the present department was under the excitement of labor movements , and the Bureau was an outgrowth of that excitement ; now , it should ...
... Labor has been such as to greatly paralyze its work . The very inception of the idea of creating the present department was under the excitement of labor movements , and the Bureau was an outgrowth of that excitement ; now , it should ...
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... labor questions , and that all issues which come up incidentally are but subordinate to it , and that when the state earnestly and actively under- takes the education or elementary training of the child - workers of the state , she will ...
... labor questions , and that all issues which come up incidentally are but subordinate to it , and that when the state earnestly and actively under- takes the education or elementary training of the child - workers of the state , she will ...
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... labor per day are restricted , and a certain number of hours ' attendance at some school demanded for each day ; or in some avocations the labor is full for one day and school attendance is intermitted , and surceases on the next and ...
... labor per day are restricted , and a certain number of hours ' attendance at some school demanded for each day ; or in some avocations the labor is full for one day and school attendance is intermitted , and surceases on the next and ...
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... labor , refused the privilege of ever sitting down at that labor for a moment's rest , under the peril of brutal chastisement , it is no wonder that fevers broke out of alarming virulence . Deaths were so frequent in some factories that ...
... labor , refused the privilege of ever sitting down at that labor for a moment's rest , under the peril of brutal chastisement , it is no wonder that fevers broke out of alarming virulence . Deaths were so frequent in some factories that ...
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Page 7 - If any druggist or other person sells or gives away any arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate or prussic acid without the written prescription of a physician...
Page 273 - SEASONABLE considerations on the indecent and dangerous custom of burying in churches and church-yards. With remarkable observations historical and philosophical. Proving, that the custom is not only contrary to the practice of the antients, but fatal, in case of infection.
Page 190 - Correction, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be adopted by the board of poor commissioners.
Page 14 - Eighth. If the intestate leaves a widow and no kindred, his estate shall descend to his widow ; and if the intestate is a married woman and leaves no kindred, her estate shall descend to her husband. Ninth. If the intestate leaves no kindred, and no widow or husband, his or her estate shall escheat to the Commonwealth.
Page 198 - ... court, shall be final and conclusive, and judgment shall be rendered and execution issued thereon ; and costs shall be recovered by the...
Page 11 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 469 - To commence the manufacture of such articles as the society may determine upon, for the employment of such members as may be without employment, or who may be suffering in consequence of repeated reductions in their wages.
Page 88 - That no railroad, express company, car company, common carrier other than by water, or the receiver, trustee, or lessee of any of them, whose road forms any part of a line of road over which cattle, sheep, swine, or other animals...
Page 445 - Bureau affirms (Report for 1875, p. 445) that " it seems natural and just that a man's labor should be worth, and that his wages should be, as much as, with economy and prudence, will comfortably maintain himself and family, enable him to educate his children, and also to lay by enough for his decent support when his laboring powers have failed.
Page 201 - ... wherein said lands lie, a description thereof, as certain as is required in a common conveyance of lands, together with a statement of the purpose for which the lands are taken...