Then it is wound on bobbins by women and children, whose earnings are 4d.
This disparity between the amount of the earnings of the working classes and the price of their food occasioned, in more cases than could well be imagined, disease and death.
This reduces the price of the farm products, and puts the earnings of the farmer into the pockets of the railroad monopolist, and the stock and bond gambler in Wall street.
The companies receive the earningsof the roads, and every fact contradicts the decision of the courts.
If they are honest and present a correct statement of the earnings of their road, the amount of tax fixed by the legislature of the state is paid; but if they choose to suppress the truth a less amount must suffice.
Nearly all the great railroad companies having their principal offices in the large eastern cities, their earnings are forwarded to those offices.
These welcome earnings she saved for a particular purpose, and for no selfish one, you may be sure.
But in seeking medical aid for these ills, much of the earnings of the head of the household had been spent.
The earningsof the husband do not increase as rapidly as the family does.
With such of her earnings as she could steal from her tormentor she had paid little Willie's board until she was arrested and sent to the Island.
His earnings were now sufficient to keep the household in comfort, and the money that he drew from his overtime he put aside for an emergency, concealing them in an old stocking underneath the mattress of his bed.
All his earnings but a few shillings went to Alice every Saturday night, and it was with difficulty that he refrained from breaking into the small store that he had kept intact in his stocking.
He was astonished at this turn of luck, for he had expected to be dismissed with his harvest earnings in his pocket.
Out of these earnings he paid Alice eighteen shillings for his board and keep, and this, together with her husband's weekly allowance, enabled her to make the house exactly what she wanted.
She put her littleearnings into a purse, and told me she liked to have some money of her own.
She was willing to take advantage of the earnings of her daughters, but she would never have induced them to take the path of evil.
The chief obstacle to the match lay in the fact that his earnings only amounted to a paul a day, which was certainly an insufficient sum to support a wife on.
Our love might have been lessened, she would have enjoyed too great advantages over me, and my self-dignity would have too deeply suffered if I had allowed myself to be supported by her earnings only.
This was a rash step for him, as his health was very delicate, and his earnings were but nine dollars per week.
He made a great deal of money that summer, and with his earnings built a splendid little schooner, which he named the "Dread.
The arrangement between this young boatman and his parents was, that he should give them all his day earnings and half his night earnings.
He fulfilled his engagement faithfully until his parents released him from it, and with his own half of his earnings by night, he bought all his clothes.
At that day parents claimed the services andearnings of their children till they were twenty-one.
He appropriated some of his first earnings to subscribing for the Liberator, and was soon after introduced to Mr. Garrison.
But the man with whom he had deposited his hardearnings became insolvent; the money he had toiled so long for, vanished; and he was obliged to leave his studies, go back to Natick and make more.
The tippling-house to which the man went to spend his day's earnings and debase himself with drink, was one of the lowest haunts of vice in the city.
About one-third of her own and Mary's earnings were required to keep her and her little ones from absolute suffering; and Mary, like herself, she too plainly perceived to be rapidly sinking under her burdens.
In anxious hope would Mrs. Wilmer wait until her earnings rose to the required amount; but not always then could she get her due; there would too frequently be a part payment, or a request to call in a day or two.
His first resolution was to save his earnings until he had enough to procure decent clothing and pay his passage back.
Her earnings were now so small, that she with difficulty procured enough of food for her children.
Greatly discouraged she went home at twelve o'clock, and was still further cast down at finding her husband there, come to take up his lodgings, and eat up her meagre earnings from her children.
In fact, all steel companies enjoyed large earnings in 1918.
The earningsof the Lake Superior company were enormous, having been nearly 58 per cent.
In fact, the amount of preferred stock has been reduced, as has the annual charge on earnings for bond interest and preferred stock dividends.
Its earnings were not as large as those of the others of the group, its first nine months’ operations yielding a return at the annual rate of slightly under 7 per cent.
With the earnings of that gambling-house, you have bought the influence of Chairman Peter Broderick, who lives upon those earnings--grows fat upon them.
With hisearnings he had bought a suit of clothes, and went to church half a day every Sunday.
It is true, it was sometimes very hard work to give of his earnings to relieve the poor; and if he had acted in conformity with the nature he had inherited, he might never have known that it was "more blessed to give than to receive.
His father was disabled by ill health during this period, and the greater part of the son's meager earnings went to help support the family.
After a few months of this he was placed in a cheap second-hand clothing store, but here his earnings were not sufficient to satisfy his family, and though he was of frail physique his mother apprenticed him to a blacksmith.
It must suffice here to say that families of five are recorded whose total yearly earnings are less than $100.
In one New York special order shop, the earnings for December fall to 55% of the average (l.
The average yearly earnings of home-workers are given as varying from $120.
Sometimes, as reported on the books of the firm, it represents the earnings of more than one week" (l.
Here again the caution must be borne in mind that home-workers' wages, low as they are, often stand for the earnings of more than one worker.
He saw in the bill power "to rob the people by unjust taxation; to take the hard earnings from the white people of the West, who, unless wiser counsels prevail, will themselves soon be reduced to worse than Egyptian bondage.
I deny that there is any authority in the Federal Constitution to authorize us to put our hands into their pockets and take therefrom a part of their hardearnings in order to distribute them as charity.
There exists no power in this Government to deprive a citizen of the United States of his property, to take away the hard earnings of his own industry and bestow them upon this class of citizens.
Railways alone cost hundreds of millions for equipment and service, and there are periods when commerce slackens and earnings fall away.
They do not willingly pay a large percentage of their earningsin rent for a tenement that breeds fever and tuberculosis.
The seduction and exploitation of young women has become a distinct occupation of certain worthless young men, commonly known as cadets, who live upon the earnings of the women they procure.
It encourages the country people to enrich their life and to increase their earnings for their own sake and for the prosperity of the people who are dependent upon them.
If his earnings are a pittance and he cannot afford the theatre, and if his tastes do not draw him to library or museum, the saloon-keeper is always ready to be his friend.
This is the group in which the opposition between earnings and wants, between the ideal social position and the real, is the most hopelessly irreconcilable.
