item: #1 of 11 id: 12580 author: Kennedy, James Boyd title: Beneficiary Features of American Trade Unions date: None words: 40784 flesch: 59 summary: | zation.| System[4] | System -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Typographical Union................ | Benefits. keywords: = =; = |; association; benefit; brotherhood; constitution; death benefit; death |; disability; disability benefit; dollars; footnote; insurance; local; makers; national; sick; union; vol; work benefit; workers; years; | cigar; | cost; | iron; | membership; | | cache: 12580.txt plain text: 12580.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 14458 author: Perlman, Selig title: A History of Trade Unionism in the United States date: None words: 84802 flesch: 54 summary: In 1900 only eight votes were recorded in the House against a bill exempting labor unions from the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; it failed, however, of passage in the Senate. The demand which it was now urging upon its friends in office was the long standing one for the exemption of labor unions from the operation of the anti-trust legislation and for the reduction to a minimum of interference by Federal Courts in labor disputes through injunction proceedings. keywords: agreement; american; american federation; american labor; american trade; association; business; case; class; coal; congress; cooperation; country; court; day; employers; federation; general; government; hour; hour day; industrial; industry; international; knights; labor; labor board; labor disputes; labor movement; labor organization; labor party; labor strike; labor union; law; leaders; members; membership; miners; national labor; national union; new; new york; order; organizations; percent; philadelphia; political; power; president; public; railway; states; strike; struggle; system; time; trade union; trade unionism; trades; union movement; unions; united; wage; war; war labor; workers; workingmen; years cache: 14458.txt plain text: 14458.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 2153 author: Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn title: Mary Barton date: None words: 166515 flesch: 84 summary: Margaret had still, you see, little or no belief in Jem's innocence; and besides, she thought if Mary saw Will, and heard herself from him that Jem had not been with him that Thursday night, it would in a measure break the force of the blow which was impending. For Job was muttering away in high dudgeon, and even Margaret's tone was altered as she wished Mary good night. keywords: alice; away; bed; bit; carson; child; come; day; days; dead; dear; death; door; end; esther; eyes; face; father; feeling; fire; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; jem; job; john; kind; know; left; life; like; look; looking; love; man; manchester; manner; margaret; mary; mary barton; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; night; people; place; poor; room; round; saw; set; sir; street; tell; thee; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; wilson; woman; words; work; young cache: 2153.txt plain text: 2153.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 3038 author: Orth, Samuel Peter title: The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners date: None words: 58848 flesch: 58 summary: His legal bête noire, however, was the Sherman Anti-Trust Law as applied to labor unions. There is a point in the combining of working people in labor unions where the loss of individual rights is not compensated by the increased power of the masses of workers. keywords: action; american; american federation; association; brotherhood; city; class; conditions; congress; convention; country; court; day; england; federation; general; gompers; hour; i. w.; industrial; industry; knights; labor; labor movement; labor organizations; labor party; labor union; law; leaders; local; man; members; men; national; new; new york; order; organization; page; people; philadelphia; place; power; president; public; railroad; railway; social; society; states; strike; system; time; trade; trade union; union; united; w. w.; wages; war; workers; workingmen; world; years; york cache: 3038.txt plain text: 3038.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 33314 author: Lefevre, Edwin title: H. R. date: None words: 84169 flesch: 84 summary: All of them thought that none of the reporters really knew what manner of man H. R. was. Also three hundred and fifty thousand people saw the O. K. of _H. R._ It is easy to remember two letters. keywords: advertising; andrew; avenue; away; bank; barrett; bishop; business; charity; course; day; dollars; ethel; eyes; face; going; goodchild; grace; grace goodchild; great; h. r.; h. rutgers; hand; head; hendrik; hendrik rutgers; letters; look; love; man; max; men; miss; money; mrs; new; new york; newspapers; office; onthemaker; order; people; president; public; reporters; right; rutgers; sandwich; sir; society; street; think; thought; time; vandergilt; voice; way; wish; work; world; york cache: 33314.txt plain text: 33314.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 35275 author: Beeks, James C. title: 30,000 Locked Out: The Great Strike of the Building Trades in Chicago date: None words: 54802 flesch: 58 summary: And you understand that under your own rule, No. 2, union men would have a right to refuse to work with non-union men, and to quit any job where such were employed, unless they were discharged when the request was made. A scheme was started for dropping mortar and pouring water on them in order to drive them away from any job where union men were at work. keywords: action; arbitration; association; bricklayers; builders; building; business; carpenters; chicago; city; committee; council; day; employers; exchange; executive; following; george; labor; master; master masons; meeting; members; men; order; organizations; pay; president; principles; right; strike; time; trades; union; work; workmen cache: 35275.txt plain text: 35275.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 41068 author: Lorwin, Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) title: Syndicalism in France date: None words: 63630 flesch: 56 summary: In its primitive form, _sabotage_ is a tacit refusal on the part of the workers to exert properly their energy or skill in the performance of their work, in retaliation for any injustice which, in their opinion, had been inflicted upon them by their employers. The second section promotes the creation of new _Bourses du keywords: action; bourses; character; class; committee; conditions; confederal; confederation; congress; congrès; des; france; french; general; general confederation; government; ideas; labor; law; means; members; movement; national; new; number; organization; page; paris; revolutionary; socialist; society; sorel; state; strike; struggle; syndicalism; syndicats; time; trade; travail; workingmen; | | cache: 41068.txt plain text: 41068.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 41154 author: Scott, Leroy title: The Walking Delegate date: None words: 94422 flesch: 89 summary: Tom saw Foley cast his eyes over the thinned crowd, and then give a short nod at Connelly. A couple of score of Foley men stood at the bar and sat about the tables. keywords: barry; baxter; buck; business; chair; chance; come; committee; connelly; day; delegate; door; driscoll; eyes; face; foley; good; got; half; hall; hand; head; jake; job; keating; left; look; maggie; man; men; moment; money; mrs; new; office; petersen; right; room; ruth; street; strike; talk; think; thought; time; tom; union; voice; walking; way; words; work; youse cache: 41154.txt plain text: 41154.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 41181 author: Hall, John A. title: The Great Strike on the "Q" date: None words: 36468 flesch: 70 summary: _ That engineers and firemen and their families be given transportation when applied for, and that some arrangement be made to pass Brotherhood men over the road. It is also complained that we ask that some arrangements be made in relation to passing Brotherhood men on the Q trains. keywords: action; brotherhood; burlington; cents; chicago; committee; company; day; engineers; firemen; grand; labor; master; men; order; pay; road; sir; strike; switchmen; time; train; work; years cache: 41181.txt plain text: 41181.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 41242 author: Schoonmaker, Edwin Davies title: The Americans date: None words: 36981 flesch: 94 summary: Ain't it the strain Of breaking with his family? (_Harry Egerton starts toward them, but Dicey keeps after him, the men following_) BUCK BENTLEY. Further, Great Master? (_Egerton points back toward the centre of the hall. keywords: anderson; ardsley; bishop; cap; chadbourne; come; donald egerton; egerton; george egerton; governor; hardbrooke; harry egerton; harvey; harvey anderson; know; left; man; men; mill; mrs; ralph; right; sam; sentry; voice cache: 41242.txt plain text: 41242.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 48925 author: Wilson, John title: A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 date: None words: 101076 flesch: 68 summary: It is therefore necessary for the State to fix the amount of wages men should be paid, for men require bread as well as hours. Again, if you seek by Act of Parliament an Eight Hours' Bill, it logically follows that you regard eight hours as the number of hours men should work. keywords: act; advance; arbitration; association; board; case; cent; coal; coal owners; collieries; colliery; committee; council; council meeting; county; day; durham; durham miners; employers; executive; federation; federation board; following; general; great; hours; july; life; man; matter; meeting; members; men; miners; mr crawford; mr w.; number; owners; place; position; present; question; reduction; resolution; result; scale; strike; time; trade; union; wages; work; working; workmen; years cache: 48925.txt plain text: 48925.txt