Word: question
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Without question the biggest need in connection with industrial unrest is jobs,--steadier jobs, better jobs, jobs whose value and importance to other people and the world in general is better understood by the doers of them, jobs under officials who are more anxious to aid the full enjoyment of the satisfactions that the doers of those jobs and the renderers of those services feel themselves entitled to enjoy...
Another important matter connected with the question of jobs is their rank. Because one man only receives a few cents more per day than another, most of us jump to the conclusion that they are very much on the same basis, but this is not true, or at least the workingman does not consider that it is so. A 'pair-heater' on a furnace in a rolling mill may get only a little more than his helper but, in the eyes of the workingman, his position is vastly more desirable. Among the workers in a plant there are a thousand...
...following are the men paired for these trials, the first named taking the affirmative of the question: Harmel and Hutchinson, Starr and Fanning, Friendly and Browne...
...Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the moderns are right and that the older method of hammering knowledge into resistant minds is the only true one? "The Teacher's Dilemma" never raised its tone above politeness, and yet it is of more value than much arguing. The same genial spiral marks the discussion of such other matters...
...laid off, and more were losing their jobs every day. Seventy-five men waited out in the cold for several hours on the chance of being one of the two men wanted for one day's work. When you have seen such conditions you can realize the often-asked question of where the workers get their absurd idea of restricting output. If you see the pile of raw material getting smaller and smaller every hour, and your job going with it, you feel pretty sore...