Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Taussig will lecture at Brown university next Monday on "Workingmen's Insurance, Compulsory or Voluntary...
There will be a lecture by Henry George at Tremont Temple, Boston, on Saturday evening, April 28. The subject will be, "Why the interests of workingmen demand the abolition of both Protective and Revenue Tariffs...
...some time he went abroad, and studied ethics and political economy for several years. On his return he accepted a call from a church in Brockton, where he is now settled. A large number of shoe factories are situated in Brockton, and the population is almost entirely composed of workingmen. Mr. Brooks is making vigorous efforts to educate the laborers so that they may be less blind to the labor problems of the day. With this end in view, he has rented a hall near the place where the workingmen live, and holds free discussions there every Thursday evening...
...More leisure for workingmen is very desirable. In it lies their main hope of progress in: (a) Health. (b) Intelligence. (c) Good citizenship. Gunton' pp. 240-51, 373-7. Congr. Globe, 2nd session, 40th Congr...
...first demands of the workingmen have thus far been met by legislation in the different States, a fact which shows that the present parties can better advance their real interests...