Discussions in Economics and Statistics
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ISBN13: 9781459065437
Paperback|9781459065437
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899. Excerpt: ... against those who enter our land to trouble it. This is not a case where the better elements of society have no means of redress or self-defence. It will not be necessary to change the prescriptions or the presumptions of the law. It will only be needful that public sentiment shall bo aroused on the subject; that the body of fair-minded and well-disposed laborers shall realize that the wanton and reckless attacks upon production and transportation which have characterized the past two years, in especial, are done to their loss and hurt. Given only this, we shall have no more instances of tens of thousands of workmen dragged by force or threats into contests in which they have no concern, and which their own judgment and temper render distasteful; no more instances of violent hands laid on the throat of the social organism, in attempts to stop the course of production and to wreck the machinery of transportation; no more instances of large districts forcibly deprived of the necessaries of life, of the commerce of a nation laid under a lawless embargo, of great cities threatened with darkness, riot, and pillage. THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR Princeton Review, Vol. -, N. S. (1888), pp. 198-209 The subject bad been previously treated by Mr. Walker in the revised edition of his Political Economy (1887), pp. 384-94. THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR. The recent reception by Mr. Powderly of a delegation of Knights of Labor, sent to urge a change of the name of that organization, is perhaps an event of sufficient significance to be used in pointing off a stage in the history of the labor movement. It is but three years since the rapid growth of that order and the aggressive energy of its management began to eclipse, in popular interest, alike foreign news and domestic politics. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459065437 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459065433 |
| Weight | 0.65 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $23.19 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 194 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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