Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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These union grafters, with their $10,000 salaries apparently added to by heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption...
...hands of a small class the duty of providing it, in recognizing its fundamental importance, and in having the community itself, and every man in it; according to his ability, provide the capital necessary to our life and well-being." Then "every man would be a capitalist and the war of class against class would disappear...
...part of a general movement to protect those members of the community who are neither part of the capitalist nor the labor organizations, a middle-class trade union has been formed in New York State. The situation which has given rise to this new movement is easy to understand. Capital and labor have been battling against each other without any regard for the community, prices have soared, everywhere the burden has fallen on the consumer. But a middle-class trade union will only open another antagonism...
...world dissatisfied with his lot. The difference in Japan is that we are seeking for a more humane solution of the problem than has been arrived at elsewhere. Here you have attempted to settle it from the materialistic standpoint alone, while in Japan our effort is to make the capitalist look at the labor question from the human standpoint. There must be a compromise between the two contending forces which will satisfy both and give neither an overwhelming advantage over the other...