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... tion in gross industrial evils ; and to estimate justly the obstacles which still beset the path of the grow- ing body of citizens of the Republic who elect to pursue this discouraging yet indispensable line of civic duty , the ...
... tion in gross industrial evils ; and to estimate justly the obstacles which still beset the path of the grow- ing body of citizens of the Republic who elect to pursue this discouraging yet indispensable line of civic duty , the ...
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Florence Kelley. spector , when the facts were brought to his atten- tion , observed that the case did not appear to consti- tute a violation of the factory law , since the children were not receiving wages , and the group at work did ...
Florence Kelley. spector , when the facts were brought to his atten- tion , observed that the case did not appear to consti- tute a violation of the factory law , since the children were not receiving wages , and the group at work did ...
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... tion the boy said : " She didn't take on at all about her message , that woman didn't . The last message I carried was to a laundry and the girl was the cashier . When she seen her message she fell clean off the stool on the floor in a ...
... tion the boy said : " She didn't take on at all about her message , that woman didn't . The last message I carried was to a laundry and the girl was the cashier . When she seen her message she fell clean off the stool on the floor in a ...
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... tion of the children , there should be a general move- ment for the employment of men in these capacities . Why should telegrams , messages and packages be entrusted to persons of less efficiency than the letter carriers employed by the ...
... tion of the children , there should be a general move- ment for the employment of men in these capacities . Why should telegrams , messages and packages be entrusted to persons of less efficiency than the letter carriers employed by the ...
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... tion with the Bureau of Charities of Chicago . In the end , three families in Cook County and five in the remainder of the state proved to be in need of the equivalent of the wages which a fatherless child less than fourteen years of ...
... tion with the Bureau of Charities of Chicago . In the end , three families in Cook County and five in the remainder of the state proved to be in need of the equivalent of the wages which a fatherless child less than fourteen years of ...
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Page 330 - If it consists in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal or vegetable substance, or any portion of an animal unfit for food, whether manufactured or not, or if it is the product of a diseased animal, or one that has died otherwise than by slaughter. Sec. 8. That the term
Page 304 - The former naturally desire to obtain as much labor as possible from their employees, while the latter are often induced by the fear of discharge to conform to regulations which their judgment, fairly exercised, would pronounce to be detrimental to their health or strength. In other words, the proprietors lay down the rules and the laborers are practically constrained to obey them. In such cases self-interest is often an unsafe guide, and the legislature may properly interpose its authority.
Page 263 - And these may be reduced to three principal or primary articles ; the right of personal security, the right of personal liberty and the right of private property...
Page 320 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited, and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained...
Page 327 - Provided, That no article shall be deemed misbranded or adulterated within the provisions of this Act when intended for export to any foreign country and prepared or packed according to the specifications or directions of the foreign purchaser...
Page 264 - THE third absolute right, inherent in every Englishman, is that of property : which consists in the free use, enjoyment, and disposal of all his acquisitions, without any control or diminution, save only by the laws of the land.
Page 334 - ... shall be liable to be proceeded against in any district court of the United States within the district where the same is found, and seized for confiscation by a process of libel for condemnation.
Page 330 - Second. If any substance has been substituted wholly or in part for the article. Third. If any valuable constituent of the article has been wholly or in part abstracted.
Page 292 - Due process of law, in spite of the absolutism of continental governments, is not alien to that code which survived the Roman Empire as the foundation of modern civilization in Europe, and which has given us that fundamental maxim 'of distributive justice — suum cuique tribuere.
Page 276 - ... to make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances...