Word: protestable
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There is at present a considerable protest by manufacturers, particularly in New England, against the existing immigration laws. Mill owners are beginning to feel the pinch caused by a shortage of labor. A Greater Boston manufacturer wrote recently, "Unless there is some relief in the shape of immigration, we will be forced to shut down our plant. . . . It is not a question of wages; the help is not here...
...priority rights by the practice of farming out the shopwork. On 19 different line shop-work was thus contracted out to dummy corporations, and as a result of this the workers on other roads feared that their standing and rights would also be nullified later, unless they made a protest...
...most plausible argument of the opponents of the Act regarding Motion Pictures submitted to the voters of Massachusetts, Tuesday, is the word "censorship". Why does that word at once awaken a feeling of protest? The fact is probably due to one man and one book. If John Milton, in his Areopagitica, addressed to the parliament of England, did not bring to bear every possible argument against the censorship of books, it would be difficult to find another...
...from the value of the thoughts themselves. And indeed we find truly inspirational passages, as in "My Vacation": "But if in no part of the day I have been or tried to be at my best, . . . then no part of the day is sweet". "My Family" contains a protest against triviality and commonplaceness in daily relations, and a call to growth and adventure which is a timely appeal from the common acceptance of mediocrity...
...course a few sentimental pacifists will offer a mild protest. There are always those who fail to distinguish progress. But the rest of mankind will shout "Onward Civilization!" as the watchword of an enlightened race...