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struggle to define and to arrange the true relations of capital and labor . Today one of your sons is born . He lies in his cradle as the child of a man without means , with a little education , and with less leisure .
struggle to define and to arrange the true relations of capital and labor . Today one of your sons is born . He lies in his cradle as the child of a man without means , with a little education , and with less leisure .
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Every man who reads of the labor question knows that it means the movement of the men that earn their living with their hands ; that are employed and paid in wages ; are gathered under roofs of factories ; sent out on farms ; sent out ...
Every man who reads of the labor question knows that it means the movement of the men that earn their living with their hands ; that are employed and paid in wages ; are gathered under roofs of factories ; sent out on farms ; sent out ...
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No , gentlemen , what we mean is this : the labor of yesterday , your capital , is protected sacredly . Not so the labor of today . The labor of yesterday gets twice the protection and twice the pay that the labor of today gets .
No , gentlemen , what we mean is this : the labor of yesterday , your capital , is protected sacredly . Not so the labor of today . The labor of yesterday gets twice the protection and twice the pay that the labor of today gets .
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| Title | Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom |
| Author | Wendell Phillips |
| Editor | Louis Filler |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | University Press of America, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 12 Sep 2006 |
| ISBN | 0819127930, 9780819127938 |
| Length | 221 pages |
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