United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 10291

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Page 18 - While all our ancient beliefs are tottering and disappearing, while the old pillars of society are giving way one by one, the power of the crowd is the only force that nothing menaces, and of which the prestige is continually on the increase. The age we are about to enter will in truth be the ERA OF CROWDS.
Page 258 - The congress shall have power — 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises, shall be uniform throughout the United States: 2.
Page 92 - After that is established, then if the earnings of the industry will justify an equitable distribution of the profits of industry between investors, management, and employees, let it be done, with a full understanding and in full co-operation with the representatives of the workers.
Page 14 - York and in the United States, with a special view (a) to the preparation of an authentic record of experience which may be consulted by employers who are interested in...
Page 5 - The committee finds that profit sharing, in one form or another, has been and can be eminently successful, when properly established, in creating employer-employee relations that make for peace, equity, efficiency, and contentment.
Page 71 - ... greater advantage from the improvement of the vein. This system has been introduced, by Mr. Taylor, into the lead mines of Flintshire, into those at Skipton in Yorkshire, and into some of the copper mines of Cumberland; and it is desirable that it should become general, because...
Page 74 - ... direction. Any real partnership can only be based on. the laborer first becoming a capitalist himself. We believed the common laborer, working year after year for a normal wage, with nothing but Saturday pay-day to look forward to, with no consciousness of steadily bettering himself, with no consciousness of his recognized and participating relationship in the company, lost hope and energy and delivered to his employment only part of the value he was capable of delivering under happy conditions....
Page 72 - The democratic principle upon which this Nation was founded should not be restricted to the political processes but should be applied to the industrial operation.
Page 5 - We have found veritable industrial islands of "peace, equity, efficiency, and contentment'' and likewise prosperity, dotting an otherwise and (sic) relatively turbulent industrial map, all the way across the continent.
Page 18 - To-day the claims of the masses are becoming more and more sharply defined, and amount to nothing less than a determination to utterly destroy society as it now exists, with a view to making it hark back to that primitive communism which was the normal condition of all human groups before the dawn of civilisation.

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