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  • The talk drifted to sociology and to the labor-unions, which

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Not just plebes, either; a lot of industrialists were secretly financing him, in hope that he would help them break up the labor-unions.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • You're nuts; everybody knew the labor-unions were backing him, hoping he'd scare the employers into granting concessions.

    Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963

  • Much of the energy and devotion which are now given to the labor-unions, because in them alone the workers see hope of help, might be given to the State if it should take upon itself more adequately to minister to the people's needs.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • American labor-unions can be explained in terms of economic measure.

    An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

  • The greatest agitation and pressure has come from the labor-unions.

    Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe

  • In order to give these organizations some semblance to real labor-unions, and thereby the better to deceive the workers, strikes were actually inspired by agents of the government from time to time.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • American labor-unions are demanding, and steadily gaining, an increasing share in the actual direction of industry.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • Meetings were forbidden by officials and broken up by soldiers and police; newspapers were suppressed, as of old; labor-unions, and even the unions of the Intellectuals, were ruthlessly persecuted and treated as conspiracies against the state.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

  • The officials of the labor-unions who were co-operating with employers in substituting arbitration in place of strikes, establishing soup-kitchens and relief funds, and doing other similar work to keep the nation alive, were singled out for arrest and imprisonment.

    Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

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