Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF NOVEMBER 21.Question: Resolved, That the contract system of employing prison labor should be abolished...
...Contract System, after a thorough trial, has been abandoned in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and California.- Ill. Report...
...Contract system is the best system...
...From Moral Standpoint., (a) Unremunerative labor is demoralizing.- U. S. Report, 1886, p. 311. (b) The contract system is eminently humane-Nation, August 4th 1887. (c) The constant employment of the convicts by the contract system has proved a great advantage in reforming the lives of prisoners...
...measures suggested are vague and impracticable, e. g. Powderley's and Smith's suggestions; Powderly in North American Review for August, 1888; "A Menacing Irruption;" Nation, Vol XLV, pp. 108, 518; New York Post Dec. 24, 1887. (b) The present law on contract labor is easily evaded...