Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Workingmen differ widely as to what their best interests are, and as to the best methods for advancing those interests. Consequently a union in one organization is impossible.- Ely's "Labor Movement in America," Appendix; Wright on K????????? of Labor; Journal of Economics...
...Osborn, L. S., opened the debate for the affirmative. He reviewed all the proceedings of the anarchists in Chicago until they culminated in the fatal catastrophe of last May, for which seven men are now held responsible. He showed that arms had been furnished to various organizations of workingmen with orders to kill the capitalists, and then quoted from one of their speeches: "If you would no longer be slaves, you must kill, you must throttle, you must stab!" This kind of doctrine certainly passed the limits of free speech, which the anarchists claim was their right, and one which...
...many of the members were active writers for the press, and also corresponded with leading politicians. Writing and teaching was a great resource to the poor students, obliged to earn their own living. They were not mere theorists, but showed a practical earnestness by giving public lectures to workingmen on great economical and political questions. Some gave lectures once a week before the workingmen's societies, while others had classes of working-men in the same subjects. Nearly all were assisting, either by writing or by teaching, in the propagation of liberal ideas...
...dispatch from Paris dated yesterday says Karl Marx, the founder of the International Workingmen's Association, died at Argenteuil Thursday...
ENTERPRISING, IF TRUE.If the enterprise of the young publishers of THE HARVARD HERALD continues, the condition of society in Cambridge will be revolutionized. The paper is on the street and for sale in the horse cars at 3 A. M. After reading it workingmen become so aesthetic that they can neither sling sledge hammers nor smell a poppy. - [World...