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DEBATE OF WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16, AT 3 P. M. IN U. 16.Subject: Resolved, that the Contract System of Prison Labor should be abolished...
...contract system defeats the real purpose of penal institutions, the repression of crime by the reformation of the criminals.- Report of the Illinois Bureau of Labor (1886), pp. 36, 37, 88 et. seq., 134-136; Report of the United States Labor Bureau (1886); Report of Charles F. Peck, New York commissioner, pp. 312; also...
...Reform is impossible without reference to the individual wants of the different men. Under the contract system there is no classification; the convicts are brought together indiscriminately...
...Contract Labor Act." Ibid...
...item of $80 was due to a flaw in the contract with a railway company. In a case where one party to a contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract is ignorant of the provisions of the contract, would the average man say that the ignorant party is careful or careless? If careless, is the carelessness real or only "apparent...