Word: workingman
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...strikes are a means to a good end--the betterment of the living conditions of the workingman--they fill, although crudely, a certain need, and are therefore in a measure instruments of good. That they are often justified is undeniable; that they sometimes serve selfish and corrupt ends is equally true...
...worked by German laborers, with French engineers, representing the French government in charge of the men. One would naturally suppose that the war being over such a short time, a great amount of friction and hard feeling would exist between the Frenchmen and the Germans. Instead of this the workingman and the engineer have met each other halfway and have come to a surprisingly good understanding under such circumstances The result of all this is increased production, higher wages, and mutual respect...
...popular young ex-soldier in the employ of Cordways Ltd, has been discharged for repeated drunkenness, Sympathy for the difficulties that the ex-service man experiences in settling down to the hum-drum life of the workingman, impels the authorities of the firm to give the man another chance, John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa...
...Capitalism is now in the throws of disintegration, and socialism is a bubble that has already been broken. Europe is disintegrating rapidly, and is now worse than it was at the time of the Armistice. International credit is breaking down, and the productive power of the European workingman has decreased 55 per cent. America can not stop this disintegration by political alliances, and therefore she should hold herself aloof...
...take an analogy for illustration: Suppose, here in Cambridge there is a workingman's family, whose income, by the reduction of wages or for other reasons, has been cut by 30 percent of its former total; we may say, for argument's sake, that the said family will try to get along with the new means of budget by dispensing with the outlay of comparatively unnecessary things, in order to sustain the lives of the family...