The Social Unrest: Capital, Labor, and the Public in Turmoil ...Review of reviews Company, 1919 - 786 páginas |
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agreements American autocracy bank become capital capitalist cent century Citizen collective bargain combinations commission common common law consumer coöperation corporation cost demand dustry economic efficiency employer and employee England equal exist fact factory Federal forces free competition free contract freedom of contract funds gold goodwill Guild Socialism hand Hanseatic League human increase individual interest Interstate Commerce Commission investment John Mitchell joint labor less living machinery Management manufacturing means ment methods modern monopoly of control nature necessary ness operation organization parties to industry ployer political practice present principle problems production profits railroad regarded result retailer scientific scientific management secure sell share Sherman Act social society standard strike struggle sumer things tion trade union trust United W. L. MACKENZIE KING wages wealth workers workmen Yokohama
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Página 362 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Página 260 - ... States or its insular possessions, and of the methods by which such Asiatics have gained and are gaining such admission, and shall report to Congress as speedily as possible with such recommendation as said commission may think proper to prevent such smuggling and illegal entry.
Página 159 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Página 216 - But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
Página 19 - The only trades which it seems possible for a joint stock company to carry on successfully, without an exclusive privilege, are those of which all the operations are capable of being reduced to what is called a routine, or to such a uniformity of method as admits of little or no variation.
Página 186 - ... strong enough to control its conduct. I am in no sense hostile to corporations. This is an age of combination, and any effort to prevent all combination will be not only useless, but in the end vicious, because of the contempt for law which the failure to enforce law inevitably produces. We should, moreover, recognize in cordial and ample fashion the immense good effected by corporate agencies in a country such as ours, and the wealth of intellect, energy, and fidelity devoted to their service,...
Página 312 - Combinations of capital are sometimes conducted in an unworthy manner contrary to law and in disregard of the interest both of labor and the public.
Página 237 - MP (1919). made clear and industry is viewed as a co-operative enterprise in production, then it follows that those who work with their hands, like those who work with their brains and those who work with their savings, are...
Página 187 - ... essential that they should not lose their heads and get drawn into an indiscriminate raid upon all corporations, all people of wealth, whether they do well or ill. Out of any such wild movement good will not come, can not come, and never has come. On the contrary, the surest way to invite reaction is to follow the lead of either demagogue or visionary in a sweeping assault upon property values and upon public confidence, which would work incalculable damage in the business world and would produce...
Página 61 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?