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...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...
...first point was a glaring defiance to all rule and precedent, to the rulings of Fiske, Camp and all other referees for three years past; the second was a vast piece of carelessness, if nothing worse, and was the subject of comment everywhere on the field where it occurred. We believe that these decisions lost us a game, won by superior team play. We believe that there is ground for winning a protest if properly presented. We do not like to believe that the referee had any other reasons for his decisions than carelessness and ignorance-at any rate till...
...seems necessary to call attention once more to the general rule that retail dealers must not give discounts unless cash is paid in advance or at the time goods are delivered...
...seems necessary to call attention once more to the general rule that retail dealers must not give discounts unless cash is paid in advance or at the time goods are delivered...
...ultra-conscientious man goes to chapel and gets treated in this way, it is small inducement for him to go again to be hustled and crowded and forced to stand in a draught throughout the service. It is to be hoped that some amendment may be made to the rule by which people are seated in the chapel...