Word: protection
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations whose immigration we find it is now our duty to restrict...
...given at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, tomorrow afternoon, at 4 o'clock. No tickets are required, but the doors will be closed at five minutes past the hour. Dr. M. W. Richardson '89 will speak on the topic, "What the State Board of Health is doing to protect the health of the citizens of Massachusetts...
...wages, as he did in Lawrence where the average man's wage was $9 a week. Instead of tact and reason, clubs were used by the police in the Lawrence trouble and naturally this only intensified the feeling. The labor leaders tell their men that the troops, sent to protect "life, liberty and property," are protecting property alone; and the men, used to a centralized police in their native lands, blame the United States government for their condition and cherish bitter hatred toward...
...iron gratings which protect the lower windows in the Stillman infirmary fastened to the masonry? In case of fire the patients in the contagious ward would be caught with only one narrow door through which to make their escape. Were this means of exit cut off, they would be faced with the certainty of death by fire. It is quite right that there should be screens over the lower windows of the infirmary to protect them from breakage, but there is no reason why they should not be so fastened as to open only from the inside. Surely the additional...
...Berger has made a personal investigation of the wage question in the United States and has found that the average wage of the working man does not exceed $6.75, while in Lawrence, the textile workers receive less than $6 a week. These conditions exist in spite of the protective tariff which manufacturers claim is primarily to protect labor. Due to the high protective tariff, we are now in a condition of over-production, which forces us to compete with other countries in the world's market, and which is also responsible for our industrial crises, another of which Mr. Berger...