Workmen's Earnings, Strikes, and Savings

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John Murray, 1861 - 168 Seiten
 

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Seite 96 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. CADE Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Seite 45 - Take even the case of a clerk, with a salary of £80 a year, a small fraction beyond 30s. a week, and it would be considered quite exceptional if it were found that anything approaching to a fourth part of the earnings were spent upon objects in which the wife and children should have no share.
Seite 45 - It has been computed that, among those whose earnings are from 10s. to 15s. weekly at least one-half is spent by the man upon objects in which the other members of the family have no share. Among artisans, earning from 20s. to 30s. weekly, it is said that at least one-third of the amount is in many cases thus selfishly devoted.
Seite 150 - But this is only what is common to all desirable objects. And inasmuch as I know what it is to labour with the hands long hours, and for small wages, as well as any workman to whom I address myself, and to practise self-denial withal, I am emboldened to declare from experience, that the gain of independence — or rather selfdependence — for which I plead, is worth infinitely more than all the cost of its attainment : and, moreover, that to attain it in a greater or...
Seite 96 - ... the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer : all the realm shall be in common...
Seite 151 - Inasmuch as I know what it is to labour with the hands long hours, and for small wages, as well as any workman to whom I address myself, and to practise self-denial withal, I am emboldened to declare from experience, that the gain of independence, or rather self-dependence, for which I plead, is worth infinitely more than the cost of its attainment ; and, moreover, that to attain it is within the power of far the greater number of skilled workmen engaged in our manufactures.
Seite 3 - ... the more active part of a man's life ; but the time was not altogether lost. I enjoyed in these years fully the average amount of happiness, and learned to know more of the Scottish people than is generally known. Let me add — for it seems to be very much the fashion of the time to draw dolorous pictures of the condition of the labouring classes — that from the close of the first year in which I wrought as a journeyman...
Seite 3 - I served my apprenticeship — all working men — had had a similar experience ; and that it was the experience of my father also. I cannot doubt that deserving mechanics may, in exceptional cases, be exposed to want ; but I can as little doubt that the cases are exceptional, and that much of the suffering of the class is a consequence either of improvidence on the part of the competently skilled, or of a course of trifling during the term of apprenticeship — quite as common as trifling at school...
Seite 145 - Knobsticks, or nonunionists, were rigidly excluded ; and if any unprivileged man ventured to work at anv union trade, it was at the peril of his life. Indeed several poor wretches were assassinated at the expense of the unions, and the murderers remained undiscovered. No organization could have been more perfect; and its result was ruin. The shipwrights and sawyers carried every point with their masters ; and in the course of a few years there was not a single master shipwright in Dublin. If vessels...
Seite 86 - ... municipality concerned. Municipal applications for a loan and the project to be financed required approval of the appropriate provincial government. In addition, the provincial government concerned was required to guarantee the payments for the interest on and the amortisation of the loan. Loans so made were to bear interest at the rate of 2 per cent, per annum and were to be amortised by semi-annual payments sufficient to pay off the loan during a period not longer than the estimated useful...

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