A History of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10: Affiliated with the International Ladies' Garment Worker's Union[Amalgamated ladies' garment cutters' union] Local 10, 1927 - 450 pages |
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A History of the Amalgamated Ladies' Garment Cutters' Union, Local 10 ... James Oneal No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 292 - I will deliver to my successor in office all books, papers and other property of this Union that may be in my possession at the close of my official term. I will also deliver all property of the Building Service Employees' International Union to the President of the same upon demand.
Page 222 - You are seeking seats in this body, you who have been elected on a platform that is absolutely inimical to the best interests of the State of New York and of the United States.
Page 132 - If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise.
Page 11 - A Globe being placed on the outside of the Outer Veil; a copy of the Sacred Scriptures closed, and a box or basket containing blank cards on a triangular Altar, red in color, in the centre of the vestibule ; a Lance on the outside of the Inner Veil, or entrance to the Sanctuary, over the wicket.
Page 228 - right" way is the way which the ancestors used and which has been handed down. The tradition is its own warrant. It is not held subject to verification by experience. The notion of right is in the folkways. It is not outside of them, of independent origin, and brought to them to test them.
Page 28 - Act of the State of New York, providing for the incorporation of benevolent, charitable, scientific, and missionary societies...
Page 84 - ... a strong one, but less tenable from the utter want of discipline among his troops. The difference of conduct in the field between the men of the South and the men of the North had given a fresh edge to the old provincial jealousies. An officer at that time present with their army declares that even the Pennsylvania and New England troops would as soon fight each other as the enemy.* Still more poignant are the complaints of Washington on " the infamous practice of plundering. For...
Page 11 - Do you obey the Universal Ordinance of God, in gaining your bread by the sweat of your brow? Are you willing to take a solemn vow binding you to secrecy, obedience, and mutual assistance?
Page 295 - ... but also its accomplices, the reformers of all types. 2. Every organization that wishes to affiliate with the Communist International must regularly and systematically remove the reformist and centrist elements from all the more or less important posts in the labor movement (in party organizations, editorial offices, trade unions, parliamentary groups, co-operatives, and municipal administrations) and replace them with well-tried Communists, without taking offense at the fact that, especially...
Page 2 - ... to lessen household labor, this era of inventive activity has not been without its effect on household employments. A hundred years ago the household occupations carried on in the average family ineluded, in addition to whatever is now ordinarily done, every form of spinning and weaving cotton, wool and flax, carpet weaving and making, upholstering, knitting, tailoring, the making of boots, shoes, hats, gloves, collars, cuffs, men's underclothing, quilts, comfortables, mattresses, and pillows...