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...investigation against the factories and sweat shops was started by the women of Chicago. It was ascertained that children of 12 years of age were being employed in intensely hot glass-works; that the average life of these children after they went to work was between four and five years and that they were being paid $1.50 to $2.00 a week. This was about 1893 and the women immediately set to work to fight the legislature. They were combatted by the Illinois Manufacturers Association and defeated at first, but at last they succeeded in passing a law which made...
...decision of the Court of Appeals of New York made in 1886 it is beyond the power of the legislature to protect the home of the poor, by being unable to prevent the introduction of the sweat-shop' into their homes. Whenever it is possible the employer gets his work done in the houses of the poor, because in this way he has not the expense of lighting, heating, and cleaning of a factory to meet...
...Some went as commissioned officers, some as privates; some were in the infantry, others in the cavalry, others wore sewed to the sleeve of their shirts the red cross of the hospital corps; everywhere throughout the vast extent of armies, in Cuba, in Porto Rico, or left behind to sweat and toil in weariness, men we had known and men we had heard of, men placed in command of companies, or in the third relief of the guard, were doing what ought to be done...
...mismanagement in distributing seats for the Yale game has brought to light some points in the existing system of giving out tickets which I should like to call attention to in your columns if I may have space. The management has evidently considered that men who work or sweat for Harvard are entitled to receive favors: for that they are doing more than giving football players good seats for their families or intimate friends is painfully plain to all of us. But in acting up to this belief the management has either discriminated most unfairly,--or has been guilty...
...Every morning now we have mounted regimental drill. Six hundred horses galloping in column of fours is a fine wave of power. The dust lifts up so thick it is like a fog, and you can barely see the next man ahead. Half-blinded, wet with sweat, and the horses on both sides rubbing against your legs, you go tearing, galloping on. Then suddenly through the white wall of dust you see the haunches of the horses ahead sink down and a hand shoot upward with the fingers spread apart. There is a quick jam, a creaking and rubbing...