The New World of LaborGeorge H. Doran Company, 1923 - 204 من الصفحات |
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... lands doing the world's work . We have no words fine enough to state their case . As we have sat with them on the floor of their poverty - stricken homes in China , Japan or India , as we have observed their titanic struggle against ...
... lands doing the world's work . We have no words fine enough to state their case . As we have sat with them on the floor of their poverty - stricken homes in China , Japan or India , as we have observed their titanic struggle against ...
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... lands . The industrial situation in China today was paralelled in the worst days of the industrial revolution in England a century and more ago . Chinese employers are for the most part humane and amenable to reason . Conditions have ...
... lands . The industrial situation in China today was paralelled in the worst days of the industrial revolution in England a century and more ago . Chinese employers are for the most part humane and amenable to reason . Conditions have ...
الصفحة 31
... land to regulate the daily wage and the daily price of merchandise . 3. That the soil be measured and divided into equal areas , graded according to its fertility in order that there might be a new basis of taxation . 4. That taxes be ...
... land to regulate the daily wage and the daily price of merchandise . 3. That the soil be measured and divided into equal areas , graded according to its fertility in order that there might be a new basis of taxation . 4. That taxes be ...
الصفحة 33
... land without property and forced to live a hand to mouth existence , as casual labor menaced by the industrial revolution . Though China has never had a census her total popula- tion is conventionally estimated at 400,000,000 . The Gov ...
... land without property and forced to live a hand to mouth existence , as casual labor menaced by the industrial revolution . Though China has never had a census her total popula- tion is conventionally estimated at 400,000,000 . The Gov ...
الصفحة 39
... land is inferior to the best farm land in America , yet it sells for five times as much . Her staple crop is rice . With the production of this the most important food supply increasing at the rate of four per cent a decade while the ...
... land is inferior to the best farm land in America , yet it sells for five times as much . Her staple crop is rice . With the production of this the most important food supply increasing at the rate of four per cent a decade while the ...
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الصفحة 130 - All systems either of preference or of restraint, therefore, being thus completely taken away, the obvious and simple system of natural liberty establishes itself of its own accord. Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men.
الصفحة 176 - When the Conference has decided on the adoption of proposals with regard to an item in the agenda, it will rest with the Conference to determine whether these proposals should take the form : (a) of an international Convention, or (b) of a recommendation to meet circumstances where the subject, or aspect of it, dealt with is not considered suitable or appropriate at that time for a Convention.
الصفحة 123 - The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds. They must respect that property of which they cannot partake. They must labour to obtain what by labour can be obtained ; and when they find, as they commonly do, the success disproportioned to the endeavour, they must be taught their consolation in the final proportions of eternal justice.
الصفحة 176 - Each of the Members undertakes that it will, within the period of one year at most from the closing of the session of the Conference, or if it is impossible owing to exceptional circumstances to do so within the period of one year, then at the earliest practicable moment and in no case later than eighteen months from the closing of the session of the Conference, bring...
الصفحة 16 - Ah! if I could show you this! if I could show you these men and women, all the world over, in every stage of history, under every abuse of error, under every circumstance of failure, without hope, without help, without thanks, still obscurely fighting the lost fight of virtue, still clinging, in the brothel or on the scaffold, to some rag of honor, the poor jewel of their souls...
الصفحة 147 - Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell : fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death ; and the deeds that ye do upon earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them...
الصفحة 175 - The payment to the employed of a wage adequate to maintain a reasonable standard of life as this is understood in their time and country. Fourth. The adoption of an eight hours day or a forty-eight hours week as the standard to be aimed at where it has not already been attained.
الصفحة 187 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production and abolish the wage system.
الصفحة 175 - And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled...
الصفحة 175 - League: (a) will endeavour to secure and maintain fair and humane conditions of labour for men, women, and children, both in their own countries and in all countries to which their commercial 136 and industrial relations extend...