Problems of Today
Problems of Today
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Some- thing can be said on theoretical grounds in favor of this proposition, but the difficulty in nppiyingjtis found to be the fact that it is the laborers with long hours, low pay and few privileges who seem most to require protection. England is the country most dreaded in international competition, but nowhere in Europe are wages so high and the number of hours' woric per week so small. Tho Enelish workman has, in some re- spects, at least the advantage over the American. He works only flft...r-six hours a week, and his labor organizations are so strong that they can afford him better protection than American organizations. Labor organizations in England have, in fact, passed through that stage of existence in which American organiaations still find themselves, and are no longer obliged to struggle for the right to exist. They are ac- cepted as a settled fact. Arbitration is more successful in England than with us, and fac- tory legislation is more highly developed. *'Pluck-me" stores were prohibited in Eng- land in 1833, whereas a Pennsylvania judge— and Pennisylvania is a State where the Amer- ican system of protection is strongest— in the year of grace 1887 actually declared the law prohibiting payment in kind unconstitu- tional, and that on the ground that American workmen must be protected in their freedom of GontractI rhe father of one of my colleagues is an English manufacturer of cotton, whose employes, to the number of twenty, I be-_^ Jieve, ca me to America to seek their for- tunes, and they all, without a sIorIg excep- tion, returned to Enariand convinced that they fared better whore they were.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Some- thing can be said on theoretical grounds in favor of this proposition, but the difficulty in nppiyingjtis found to be the fact that it is the laborers with long hours, low pay and few privileges who seem most to require protection. England is the country most dreaded in international competition, but nowhere in Europe are wages so high and the number of hours' woric per week so small. Tho Enelish workman has, in some re- spects, at least the advantage over the American. He works only flft...r-six hours a week, and his labor organizations are so strong that they can afford him better protection than American organizations. Labor organizations in England have, in fact, passed through that stage of existence in which American organiaations still find themselves, and are no longer obliged to struggle for the right to exist. They are ac- cepted as a settled fact. Arbitration is more successful in England than with us, and fac- tory legislation is more highly developed. *'Pluck-me" stores were prohibited in Eng- land in 1833, whereas a Pennsylvania judge— and Pennisylvania is a State where the Amer- ican system of protection is strongest— in the year of grace 1887 actually declared the law prohibiting payment in kind unconstitu- tional, and that on the ground that American workmen must be protected in their freedom of GontractI rhe father of one of my colleagues is an English manufacturer of cotton, whose employes, to the number of twenty, I be-_^ Jieve, ca me to America to seek their for- tunes, and they all, without a sIorIg excep- tion, returned to Enariand convinced that they fared better whore they were.
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