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...Competition is injurious under the contract system of prison labor. - (a) To the convict. - (1) Exploitation not reform sought. - (2) Work conflicts with discipline. - (8) Contractor's interest is to keep skilled workmen in prison. - (b) To the free laborer; Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics 1881, p. 228; Ohio Bureau of Labor Statistics 1879, p. 191. (1) Undue concentration of trades, - N. Jersey Report 1882, statistics of trades of convicts committee. - (2) Competition with cheap labor, - system of letting contracts gives a contractor once established a monopoly of prison labor, - Princeton Review, 1880, pp. 239, 241. - (c) To the outside...
...these firms offer to do the work. It is reported that several tailors are sending circulars to members of the senior class soliciting orders for the caps and gowns. The Committee ask that no seniors will give their orders until it is ready to report. A much more advantageous contract can be secured if the work of the whole class is given to one firm. Moreover, one of the principal reasons for the change to the cap and gown disappears unless there be uniformity in the gowns worn on Class...
...contract for a new building for the Sheffield Scientific School has been awarded to a Bridgeport firm, the bid being a little less than $120,000. The building will be used for the mechanical engineering department, and will be situated between North Sheffield Hall and old Sheffield Hall. It will be 106 feet 8 inches long by 84 feet 4 inches wide, in the shape of a parallelogram with round turrets at each end and a boiler and engine room on one side. There will be four stories in all with a basement. On the first floor will...
...contract for building the grandstands for the Harvard-Yale game has been awarded to G. M. Burnham, of Springfield...
...moral obligations to pension its old soldiers. - (a) The army was made up of our best and most patriotic men. - (b) The U. S. has hitherto always given service pensions to its old soldiers. - (c) Our national honor is involved, for pension legislation is really the fulfillment of a contract; Ingalls and Gorman in Cong. Record, June 23d, 1890. - (d) The U. S. is wealthy enough to afford liberal pensions...