Labor in Europe: Reports from the Consuls of the United States in the Several Countries of Europe on the Rates of Wages, Cost of Living to the Laboring Classes, Past and Present Wages, &c., in Their Several Districts, in Response to a Circular from the Department of State ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1885 |
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Page 886
... rule , support candidates of the Liberal party . An exception to this general rule prevails in England , where the Wesleyans are somewhat evenly divided between the two po- litical camps . But in the principality disestablishment is the ...
... rule , support candidates of the Liberal party . An exception to this general rule prevails in England , where the Wesleyans are somewhat evenly divided between the two po- litical camps . But in the principality disestablishment is the ...
Page 893
... rule his house rent would not amount to that - he would be exempt from the inhabited - house duty of 9d . ( 18 cents ) per pound . Therefore , really the taxes that a workingman is called on to bear are more of a local than imperial ...
... rule his house rent would not amount to that - he would be exempt from the inhabited - house duty of 9d . ( 18 cents ) per pound . Therefore , really the taxes that a workingman is called on to bear are more of a local than imperial ...
Page 898
... rule , not only upon a moderate but a very small scale . These workmen's clubs where excess is now indulged in will work out their own cure , failing which , the law must step in and remedy the evil . My experience of workingmen's clubs ...
... rule , not only upon a moderate but a very small scale . These workmen's clubs where excess is now indulged in will work out their own cure , failing which , the law must step in and remedy the evil . My experience of workingmen's clubs ...
Page 909
... rule reserved till Sundays . It is too true that tea and bread and butter are the staple articles of diet . Strangers visiting the quarries have described the men as being shorter , narrower- chested , more unhealthy - looking , and in ...
... rule reserved till Sundays . It is too true that tea and bread and butter are the staple articles of diet . Strangers visiting the quarries have described the men as being shorter , narrower- chested , more unhealthy - looking , and in ...
Page 911
... rule , alternates with the coal - cutting about every nine hours continuously . THE IRON TRADE . The manufactured - iron trade is one of the great industries of South Wales . It ranks next to the coal trade in importance and in number ...
... rule , alternates with the coal - cutting about every nine hours continuously . THE IRON TRADE . The manufactured - iron trade is one of the great industries of South Wales . It ranks next to the coal trade in importance and in number ...
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Popular passages
Page 968 - ... 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 1686 - 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 1669 - ... be provided within a reasonable time, and if the same is not provided, maintained and used, the factory or workshop shall be deemed not to be kept in conformity with this act.
Page 1690 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales, with respect to summary convictions and orders...
Page 1689 - ... used for any manufacturing process or handicraft or in cleaning or oiling any part of the machinery or in any other kind of work whatsoever incidental to or connected with the manufacturing process or handicraft or connected with the article made or otherwise the subject of the manufacturing process...
Page 1683 - ... such person to be so examined and to sign a declaration of the truth of the matters respecting which he is so examined : and (g) To exercise such other powers as may be necessary for carrying this Act into effect.
Page 1697 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer to whose orders or directions the workman at the time of the injury was bound to conform and did conform...
Page 1699 - ... and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post...
Page 1688 - ... purposes of gain, in or incidental to the following purposes or any of them ; that is to say...
Page 1691 - Education Department" means " the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education...