Word: contractor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...contractor was at the Gymnasium yesterday morning, and it was definitely decided to begin work on the addition some time next week. It is thought that the ground will be in condition to be broken by that time...
...twenty-two new courts which were to have been ready last Thursday, owing to a delay of the contractor, will not be ready for a few days. They will be placed at the disposal of the students as fast as they are completed...
Again, there will be the advantage of being able to hire the same contractors for the business work in connection with all the teams. Instead of various contractors for making stands, roping off grounds +++ for various games, one contractor can be hired to do all the work for a fixed sum. Still further, the purchase of athletic outfit can be made of one firm or store instead of with several, as it is at present. In this way, current expenses can be kept lower than they are now. We may expect also a solution of the training-table problem...
...building will be 30 ft. wide by 60 ft. long and three stories high. It will be of plain brick and of slow burning or mill construction. F. B. Furbish is the contractor, and the price...
...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...