The Industrial Evolution of the United StatesScribner's, 1897 - 362 sider |
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1890 CAPITAL PRODUCT American American Railway Union amount arbitration attempts average bloomeries boots and shoes Boston boycott bricks built Carolina cent century CHAPTER classes clothing colonial days colonial period colonists Connecticut constitution cotton creased declaration demand early employed employment engaged England erected existence exportation factory system facture Federation flax forges furnaces hours of labor hundred increase influence inventions Journeymen Knights of Labor labor movement labor unions machinery machines manu manufac manufacture of iron Maryland Massachusetts ment MILLIONS mills National North number of establishments number of women operatives pence Pennsylvania PERCENTAGE Philadelphia pig-iron Pittsburg printing prior Pullman Company railroad regulate reported result Revolution sawmills secure shillings shipbuilding ships slave labor South South Carolina southern colonies spinning statistics strike strikers textile tion tons trades unions truck system United value of product vessels Virginia wages weaving wool woolen workingmen York
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Side 116 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Side 199 - ... in many instances to an extent not only sufficient for the supply of the families in which they are made, but for sale. and even in some cases for exportation. It is computed in a number of districts that two-thirds, three-fourths, and even four-fifths of all the clothing of the inhabitants are made by themselves.
Side 318 - If any two or more persons conspire or agree together, or the officers or executive committee of any society or organization or corporation shall issue or utter any circular or edict as the action of or instruction to its members, or any other persons, societies, organizations or corporations for the purpose of establishing a so-called boycott or...
Side 318 - ... they shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy; and every such offender, whether as individuals or as the officers of any society or organization, and every person convicted of conspiracy at common law, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding $2,000, or both.
Side 273 - Commonwealth, especially in its relations to the commercial, industrial, social, educational and sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and to the permanent prosperity of the productive industry of the Commonwealth.
Side 269 - No child under the age of ten years shall be employed in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment within this Commonwealth...
Side 281 - A combination of workmen to raise their wages may be considered in a two fold point of view: one is to benefit themselves ... the other is to injure those who do not join their society. The rule of law condemns both.
Side 268 - Sec. 2. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any...
Side 280 - An Act to extend and regulate the Liability of Employers to make Compensation for Personal Injuries suffered by Workmen in their service.
Side 255 - ... by widening their scope so that each, without destroying their individual character, may act together in all that concerns them. The open trades unions, national and international, can and ought to work side by side with the Knights of Labor, and this would be the case were it not for men either overzealous or ambitious, who busy themselves in attempting the destruction of existing unions to serve their own whims and mad iconoclasm. This should cease and each should understand its proper place...