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... Weekly payments , xxxi . The Constitutional Objection to Legislation , xxxiii . How far are Weekly Payments Im- practicable ? xxxv . Expense or Inconvenience involved , xxxviii . Difficulty of maintaining a Cash Reserve , xl . The ...
... Weekly payments , xxxi . The Constitutional Objection to Legislation , xxxiii . How far are Weekly Payments Im- practicable ? xxxv . Expense or Inconvenience involved , xxxviii . Difficulty of maintaining a Cash Reserve , xl . The ...
Page ix
... weekly , a little more than two - fifths monthly ; most of the others fortnightly ( pp . 4 , 5 ) . The largest percentage of weekly payments is found in New Haven County , where more than two - thirds of the operatives are paid in this ...
... weekly , a little more than two - fifths monthly ; most of the others fortnightly ( pp . 4 , 5 ) . The largest percentage of weekly payments is found in New Haven County , where more than two - thirds of the operatives are paid in this ...
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... weekly payment of wages ; the proportion of cases reported is as high among weekly pay- ment mills as elsewhere . Weekly payment does not , in itself , prevent this . It simply gives a chance to pay cash if the operative is so inclined ...
... weekly payment of wages ; the proportion of cases reported is as high among weekly pay- ment mills as elsewhere . Weekly payment does not , in itself , prevent this . It simply gives a chance to pay cash if the operative is so inclined ...
Page xiv
... weekly . Several outdoor employments , with ex- ceptionally long hours for instance , street car drivers- made no ... week ; of those paying fortnightly , seven per cent . ; of those paying monthly , thirty - two per cent . Or , to ...
... weekly . Several outdoor employments , with ex- ceptionally long hours for instance , street car drivers- made no ... week ; of those paying fortnightly , seven per cent . ; of those paying monthly , thirty - two per cent . Or , to ...
Page xv
... weekly payment mills have a normal work- ing day of over ten hours . Second , -leaving out cases of fortnightly or mixed payment , a minority of men , a ma- jority of women , and a two - thirds majority of children are paid monthly ...
... weekly payment mills have a normal work- ing day of over ten hours . Second , -leaving out cases of fortnightly or mixed payment , a minority of men , a ma- jority of women , and a two - thirds majority of children are paid monthly ...
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300 Daughter aforesaid amount Assembly attachment average bank Brass Bureau capital stock cash cent child labor children go Colony Commissioner company's store company's tenement Connecticut contributing to earnings corporation court debt demand discontent effect employer employment enforce establishments exempt expense factory fairly temperate Father fortnightly French Canadian go to school hands Hartford Haven Health fair hours of labor hundred dollars increase of wages industrial Irish Iron Knights of Labor land legislation less Live in company's Male manner of payment ments Metal mills Miscellaneous Manufactures molasses month monthly payments Mother Moulders Nationality pay weekly Persons not contributing pounds proportion railroad Remarks road saves no money shillings Spare Weaver Spinner Spooler Stafford Springs stockholders TABLE Textile thereof Three-quarters credit tion Total town trade in company's Wearing Apparel week weekly payments women Woolen workingmen workmen
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Page 182 - ... companies into that of the new corporation, and how and when directors and officers shall be chosen, with such other details as they shall deem necessary to perfect such new organization and the consolidation of said companies or railroads.
Page 366 - We desire a proper equality, equity, and fairness, protection for the weak, restraint upon the strong ; in short, justly distributed burdens and justly distributed power. These are American ideas, the very essence of American independence, and to advocate the contrary is unworthy of the sons and daughters of an American republic. We cherish the belief that sectionalism is, and of right should be, dead and buried with the past. Our work is for the present and the future.
Page 27 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Page 27 - ... and in all prosecutions, by indictment or information, a speedy public trial by an impartial jury. He shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, but by due course of law.
Page 26 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness.
Page 64 - That the collector of each district shall progressively number the licenses by him granted, beginning anew at the commencement of each year, and shall make a record thereof in a book, to be by him kept for that purpose, and shall, once...
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