United States or Vietnam ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Her husband was wealthy, twelve years her senior, and, far from watching over her with jealous care an attitude which often characterizes such unions he, on the contrary, permitted her a dangerous freedom, believing that she would appreciate without abusing it. Her friendship with Lou Chada had first opened his eyes to the perils which beset the road of least resistance.
And together they sought a street-car. "Man and Superman" It is a sad commentary on all save the most chemic unions those dark red flowers of romance that bloom most often only for a tragic end that they cannot endure the storms of disaster that are wont to overtake them.
Chicago was the industrial center of the country, and nowhere else were the unions so strong; but their organizations did the workers little good, for the employers were organized, also; and so the strikes generally failed, and as fast as the unions were broken up the men were coming over to the Socialists.
It is, however, by no means only in rural districts, but in great cities also that marriages are at the outset free unions. Thus in Paris Després stated more than thirty years ago (La Prostitution
The municipal and provincial councils, organized in unions for war-work, and the war-industry committees, turned without delay to the revolutionary parliament, in which many of their leading workers were members. The leaders of the coöperative movement could not act with such rapidity and precision.
The House may not compare intellectually with the House of Commons, but it contains many bright men. A fool could hardly get in, though the labor unions have placed some vicious representatives there.
Formed in New York about seven years ago, the League consists of women members of labor unions, a few men in organized trades, and many women outside the ranks of wage earners. Some of these latter are women of wealth, who are believers in the trade-union principle, but more are women who work in the professional ranks, teachers, lawyers, physicians, writers, artists, settlement workers.
One novel is a pamphlet against lunatic asylums, another against model prisons, a third against the poor law, a fourth against the government offices, a fifth against trade unions.
The Hirsch-Duncker Unions, with 100,000 members, are Liberal, but also loyal and anti-Socialist. In labour conflicts, naturally, as distinguished from politics, all workmen of the particular branch in conflict work together, whether they are Socialist or not. It need only be added that there is no so-called "Labour party" in the German Parliaments.
"Precisely," said Rykov, "and in that way the Soviets, useful during the period of transition as an instrument of struggle and dictatorship, will be merged with the Unions." "But if this merging of political Soviets with productive Unions occurs, the questions that concern people will cease to be political questions, but will be purely questions of economics." "Certainly.
Word Of The Day