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... Tom at a young age, after the death of his wife, Barton tackles depression and begins to involve himself in the Chartist movement connected with the trade unions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Barton...

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...n a far more subtle, yet no less forceful manner, the Boss shares with the reader some views about taxation, slavery (both literal and wage slavery), trade unions, the origins of the German language, the nature of marriage, and probably most powerfully, death. It is a tall order for a relatively brief text, but Twain manages it all with surprising clarity. No one will agre...

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...facturing town whose tranquility is disturbed first by the murder of one of its prominent citizens and soon thereafter by a general strike of all the trades-unions. As the story develops, Richard Shackford, the murdered man's nephew, finds himself inextricably caught up in both these events. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)...

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... head start over Kino and is still leading the Asian derby in finance and trade. Again, the Asian intelligence and work ethic have pushed it far pas... ...or farmers, the conductors on busses, and many of the jobs of the building trades. Increased technology had given us better building materials and c... ...rs and carpenters were no longer needed. The same thing happened in other trades. Most printing jobs were done from a computer disk--not from typese... ...all. We opted for the basics. . “Ask our citizens whether they would trade our high quality schools, health care and incomes for more gum chewi... ...e United Nations and the Council of Europe or the European Union are such unions of countries. “In 1998 the Council of Europe amended the Con...

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... may have to take into consideration special interest groups like farmers, unions or businesses. There is also the political consideration to make a... ...convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In the West, laws and unions have given the workers more money, but the Communist government ha... ...iminishing workforce most politicians, as well as many religious groups and trade unions, want to add more young workers so that the older people can... ...ing workforce most politicians, as well as many religious groups and trade unions, want to add more young workers so that the older people can still ... ...We want our people informed. What positive proposals might the students and unions have made that would also be accepted by the employers? After all,...

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...udest political noises, whether it is people who own big businesses, labor unions, homosexuals or strongly conservative religionists. But then as I t... ...en directed by rich special interest groups, like oil companies, farmers, unions and even the Native Americans. We admit that large campaign contrib... ...al freedoms to business, to the politicians, and to other elites like the unions and the military. ―Then there is the question of how much sho... ...lowed more freedom, such as the U.S., U.K., Germany and France. Will free trade or protectionism be better for the U.S., China, or the EU, and which ... ... get a direct pipeline to the Almighty‘s ideas on farm subsidies and free trade, but it is easier to look to the past, when God handed down His reve... ...l the end cost of the item that is of interest to consumers. And with free trade, the consumers are kings. If the countries‘ producers can‘t meet or ... ...ncome tax was 22.5%, of sales tax was 12.5% and on taxes on international trade, such as duties, was 13.2% but the maximum economic growth occurred ... ...wth occurred when the income tax was 11.9%, the sales tax at 4.6% and the trade taxes at 9.4%. The study also found that the maximum tax that will ... ...n Italy you and retire at 57 so the government wants to raise it, but the unions fight it. This will be the story in country after country as the go...

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...re, that he too was plummeting as if from one of the infernos of the World Trade Center while gusts of wind were carrying to him the barely audible mo... ...as if his earlier paintings, which were still being collected, valued, and traded, had vanquished with him off the artistic scene, and as if his brief... ...hemselves--accidents and stumblings from that which in ignorance begat the unions and material presences to which they tolerated, and to some degree c... ...nnial, his indolence seemed the preferable course. A flight into the World Trade Center towers of oneself might be in part a flight down to a sordid h... ...al contrivance than this? And if not only the sport of man on man, but all unions of naked intimacy were illicit and vulgar without paper and ink cont... ... of naked intimacy were illicit and vulgar without paper and ink contrived unions of prehistory predating and leading to both, the present generation ... ...ments of servitude and sustenance they were invisibly chained to; and hack tradesmen from shoe repairmen to homemade broom salesmen sought refuge from... ...ng to anyone?" "Yes. To not be in the commotion of others too much. It's a trade off--which voice seems most important at a given time. But I know tha...

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...m. Moslems (the speculation was Al Queida) had flown two jets into the World Trade Center in Manhattan. The American military channel was showing CNN... ...his bed with a laptop computer burning his skin. He realized that the World Trade Center metaphor was an anachronism for the story of Gabriele and ye... ... burst and burned against the walls of his brain like jets against the World Trade Center. At best they expanded and contracted nerves in his brain l... ...gasses the way thousands of their civilians had been melted within the World Trade Center towers. The Saddam Hussein regime, for all its internal atro... ... its eternally young and often drug addicted specimens, as much as the World Trade Center towers, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty ... ...did know that there were some happy marriages out there. Such marriages were unions of individuals who sought to edify the world meaningfully with the...

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............................................................... 164 Frankie’s Trade ........................................................................ ...ith a snap to it for to snap round the slave’s neck. They used to do a big trade in slave-rings at the Forge here, and ship them to all parts of Old E... ... the mistress—silver for the maid! Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.’ ‘Good!’ said the Baron, sitting in his hall, ‘But Iron—Cold Iron—is... ...How very little since things were made Things have altered in the building trade. A year ago, come the middle o’ March, We was building flats near the... ... very little since things was made Things have altered in the shipwright’s trade. In Blackwall Basin yesterday A China barque re-fitting lay, When a f... ...e’s but next-above-fool to the man that can’t do nothin’. That’s where the Unions make their mistake.’ ‘My thought to the very dot.’ Dan heard Hal sla... ...p his tight- hosed leg. ‘I’ve suffered ‘in my time from these same Guilds— Unions, d’you call ‘em? All their precious talk of the myster- ies of their... ...ke me, you’ve found yourself hin- dered by those—Guilds, did you call ‘em?—Unions, we say.’ ‘You may say so!’ Hal pointed to a white scar on his cheek... ...ned to- wards Hal—’if a man has his private spite laid up against you, the Unions give him his excuse for workin’ it off.’ ‘Well I know it,’said Hal. ...

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...is speech into the common pattern. By his own account he was both strong and skilful in his trade. A few years back, he had been married and after a f... ...scussed the probable duration of the voyage, we exchanged pieces of information, naming our trades, what we hoped to find in the new world, or what we... ...what indistinct and childish hope. We had a father and son who made a pair of Jacks-of-all- trades. It was the son who sang the ‘Death of Nelson’ unde... ... was the son who sang the ‘Death of Nelson’ under such contrarious circumstances. He was by trade a shearer of ship plates; but he could touch the org... ... but would pick the subject to the bone, without once relinquishing a point. An engineer by trade, Mackay believed in the unlimited per- fectibility o... ...mparison with the great historical cycles—has so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions, not mutual dangers, nor steamers, nor railways, no...

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...face. The halo of glory that a fortune made in business gives to a retired tradesman sat on his brow, and stamped him as one of the elect of Paris—at ... ...satisfaction, and hope dawned in succession without disguise on his stupid tradesman’s face. He looked at himself in the glass over an old clock of th... ...ot have much to complain of—” “Ah! there we are again, madame! Yes, I am a tradesman, a shopkeeper, a retail dealer in almond-paste, eau-de-Portu- gal... ...enny Cadine and Josepha were both aged twenty when they first met,” the ex-tradesman went on, “the Baron had been playing the part of Louis XV. to Mad... ... have kept shop, and I know. There is no eye so quick as that of the Paris tradesman to detect real wealth from its sham.—You have no money,” he said,... ...ed by robbery. We shudder to think of 144 Cousin Betty the result of such unions from the three points of view of increasing crime, degeneracy of the... ...rie came to beg that Adeline would add the legalization of these voluntary unions to the other good works of which she was the instrument. One of the ...

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...e by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wreck of the Ro... ...sionally had a screw in our hair over each cheek-bone with a slight Thief-flavour in it. Besides prowlers and idlers, we were mechanics, dock-labourer... ...n the knife in his leathern girdle; he was looking over bul- warks, all eyes and hair; he was standing by at the shoot of the Cunard steamer, off to-m... ...There were at least a score of windows in its high roof alone; how many in its grotesque front, I soon gave up counting. The owner was a shopkeeper, b... ...ions are threadbare, and the whole of the church furni- ture is in a very advanced stage of exhaustion. We are three old women (habitual), two young l... ...rathful expounder who bitterly anathematised a poor little Circus. Similarly, in the reading provided for the young people enrolled in the Lasso of Lo... ...ngly imbued with a sense of their responsibility. But what one set of men can do in this wise, another set of men can do; and this is a noble example ...

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...t out-sharpened all her other sharpness. ‘You can’t tell me the name of my trade, I’ll be bound,’ she said, after taking several of these observations... ...r-mats?’ ‘A schoolmaster, and says dinner-mats! I’ll give you a clue to my trade, in a game of forfeits. I love my love with a B because she’s Beautif... ... ‘You are sure to break it. All you children do.’ ‘But that makes good for trade, you know, Miss Wren,’ returned Eugene. ‘Much as people’s breaking pr... ...eaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for my trade.’ ‘I don’t know about that,’ Miss Wren retorted; ‘but you had better ... ... of scorn. If I indicated such a programme to any wor- thy and intelligent tradesman of your town—nay, I will here be personal, and say Our town—what ... ...eerd that I’m a growing like the poor old people that they brick up in the Unions, as you may sometimes see when they let ‘em out of the four walls to...

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...of that first disenchantment, flees for ever. Again, the husband, in these unions, is usually a man, and the wife commonly enough a woman; and when th... ...cs?” “Nor that.” “Is it some language?” “Nay, it is no language.” “Is it a trade?” “Nor a trade neither.” “Why, then, what is’t?” “Indeed, sir, as a t... ...English blood like the sound of a trum- pet; and if the Indian Empire, the trade of London, and all the outward and visible ensigns of our greatness s... ...nile lyrical drama, surely of the most ancient Thespian model, wherein the trades of mankind are successively simulated to the running burthen “On a c...

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...brought with him a considerable wardrobe, the gorgeous outfit of a retired tradesman who denies him- self nothing. Mme. Vauquer’s astonished eyes behe... ...rs of age, who had looked scarce forty, the stout, comfortable, prosperous trades- man, with an almost bucolic air, and such a brisk demeanor that it ... ...had been twisted out of shape very neatly for a man that’s not used to the trade.” “Really? You don’t say so?” “Yes. One of my friends is expatriating... ...er lover, was a mystery. What was the secret tie that bound her to the old tradesman? This mystery he meant to penetrate, hoping by its means to gain ... ...forces of his nature, as he put the whole power of his brain into the corn trade. He had regarded his wife, the only daughter of a rich farmer of La B... ... austere moralist to frown. How many respect- able people contract similar unions! We deceive nobody; it is deception that makes a position humiliatin...

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...d down on the day of her wedding. Those who know the habits of the British tradesman are aware that he has gregarious propensities like any lord in th... .... The tiptop men of the society were two bachelors, and two as fashionable tradesmen as any in the town: Mr. Woolsey, from Stultz’s, of the famous hou... ...the world he hates and de- spises, it is a Madonna. “I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine was born in London)—”I’m a hartist... ...ntine has so often talked to me about, and attended by some of the tip-top tradesmen of the metropolis!” “There’s better men here than Mr. Eglantine,”... ... to meet him with pistols, which the latter declined, saying, justly, that trades- men had no business with such weapons; on this the tailor proposed ... ... of honourable exceptions to the case above hinted at, and knows many such unions in which it is the Frenchman who honours the English lady by marryin...

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...y well be; as generous illusions of friendship; as fair mementos of bygone unions, of those nights and suppers of the gods, when, lapped in the sym- p... ...ch as ours, richer than usual in two things, in Truths grown obsolete, and Trades grown obsolete,—what can the fool think but that it is all a Den of ... ... Smuggler. With courteous brevity, I signify my indifference to contraband trade, my humane intentions, yet strong wish to be pri- vate. In vain: the ... ...g to himself a suit of Leather. This man, the first of the Quakers, and by trade a Shoemaker, was one of those, to whom, under ruder or purer form, th... ...ut only spiders and unclean beetles, in horrid accumula- tion, drive their trade; and the mask still glares on you with its glass eyes, in ghastly aff... ... but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds, and Monsoons, and Moon’s Eclipses; by all which the condition ...

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...l of sea water and a race of grimy bargemen brought the heavy materials of trade from the Pool thereby beneath the very feet of the workers. Faint and... ...h was natu- rally to keep property intact, the board clear for the game of trade. Just as the feudal concern had been to keep the board 115 H G Wells... ...house guards, and drain and cable guards, its hosts of land-workers. Their unions it did not fight, but it under- mined and betrayed and bought them. ... ...olds me. Let me learn more of that. Your aeronaut was saying there is some trades union objection to one’s learning.” “There is, I believe,” said Linc... ...eople in blue—. The proverb runs: ‘Blue canvas once and ever.’ The Company trades in their labour, and it has taken care to assure itself of the suppl... ...f all the great things; the aeronauts are privileged and rich, the closest trades union in the world, and so are the engineers of the wind vanes. We h...

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...tle under two thousand people, mostly en- gaged in agricultural work or in trades serving agriculture. There was a blacksmith, a saddler, a chemist, a... ...uld have found most of the old houses still as he had known them, the same trades a little improved and differentiated one from the other, the same ro... ...stead of wooden pegs, to achieve all sorts of mechanical possibilities, to trade more freely and manufacture on a larger scale, to send goods abroad i... ...f its worst contortions. Residential vil- las appeared occupied by retired tradesmen and widows, who esteemed the place healthy, and by others of a st... ...reported the proceedings of the local Bench and the local Board, compelled tradesmen who were interested in these affairs to advertise, used the epith... ...tra large size, specially made and very inconvenient.) And he hated T rade Unions because they interfered with his 124 The New Machiavelli autocratic... ...heir own prosperity and that circumambient poverty, and they knew of Trade Unions simply as disagreeable external things that upset my uncle’s temper....

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...p-post. When the weather was wet, he put up his umbrella over his stock in trade, not over himself; when the weather was dry , he furled that faded ar... ...rds these does Mr Wegg stump, but towards the poorer shops of small retail traders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folks warm, and of Italian... ...and out at all?’ ‘Never was so well in. Mr Wegg, I’m not only first in the trade, but I’m the trade. Y ou may go and buy a skeleton at the West End if... ...y young female relative of any distinguished gentleman engaged in the lime trade (which I cherish next to my life) being present, I think it might be ... ...owed (Mr Inspector having proposed as an ap- propriate sentiment ‘The lime trade!’) and Bob withdrew to report the commendations of the guests to Miss... ...eerd that I’m a growing like the poor old people that they brick up in the Unions, as you may sometimes see when they let ‘em out of the four walls to...