Food and clothing for his operatives it is not the custom of the present age that he should directly provide; and few capitalists, except the producers of food or clothing, have any portion worth mentioning of their capital in that shape.
The fact (sufficiently established by Mr. Brassey) is not considered also that England gives higher wages to operatives than the Continent, and yet England is able to undersell France and Germany in neutral markets.
And how long are our patient but suffering operatives to remain the victims of an extinct authority and an aggressive and a malevolent Legislature?
It would have been well for England's fame and for her prosperity if the statesmen at Westminster had shared the wisdom and the nobler instincts of the operatives of Lancashire.
Many of the operatives had been there for years, and the dull season, common to all phases of the clothing trade, was never marked enough here to produce discharges or materially lessen production.
But one of the operatives was able to make a dozen a day, her usual average being about nine, or five dozen per week of sixty hours.
Whatever the causes of short-time operation in the mills or of total cessation of work the situation was such that from October, 1861, more and more operatives were thrown out of employment.
But it was far otherwise with the operatives of Lancashire.
That no such popular effect was made demands careful analysis--to be offered in a later chapter--but here the fact is alone important, and the fact was that the operatives sympathized with the North and put no pressure on the Cabinet.
Ashton whereoperatives were being given a leisure-time education.
George Herwegh, the poet, took charge of the refugees from Switzerland and a group of German operatives recently returned from France.
I talked with one of the most extensive gum elastic manufacturers in the United States, for the purpose of gaining some idea of the number of female operatives in that department, their wages, if the occupation is unhealthy, &c.
Some of the operatives are daughters of the leading men of the town, and make $5 a week at the business.
There is a surplus now of workers in cotton mills, but not of operatives in woollen mills.
Churches and Sabbath schools are also attached to several of the manufactories, so that the religious training of the operatives may be properly attended to.
In Lowell, a few years back, nearly all the operatives were young American girls from the country.
When done in factories, the workers cannot be so neat, on account of the dust, the large number of operatives in a room, and the coloring matter that rubs off the hats.
In the dull seasons their operatives are not likely to be thrown out of work, as the wholesale dealers will always require them.
The laws of New Jersey prohibit the employment of operatives more than twelve hours out of the twenty-four, but some evade it.
The number of female operatives engaged in the manufacture of textile fabrics in Philadelphia exceeds twelve thousand.
The operatives in all these factories are white people, chiefly girls and boys, from twelve to twenty years of age.
A medical man has stated, that the health of operatives is promoted by occupying rooms with large windows on each side of the room, so that the sunlight will penetrate the apartments during the entire day.
All major military nations have a certain number of espionage operatives in each other's countries.
Our operatives all have their own assignments, their own work.
Perspiration dripped from white faces as the operatives stood listlessly at their looms, or the children straggled back and forth in the narrow lanes between the frames, tending the endlessly turning spools.
The operatives sweated under their tasks and left the rooms, with their temperature of eighty-five, to come, drenched with perspiration, into the chill outside air.
The houses of the operatives were set up haphazard and the village was denied all beauty.
Six big factories in all, some on one side of the state line and some on the other, daily breathed in their live current of operatives and exhaled them again to fill the litter of flimsy shanties.
It was not yet time for the mill operatives to be out; but as he glanced eagerly in the direction of the buildings, the gates opened and the loom-fixers streamed forth.
But the necessity of keeping dust out of the machinery, the inconvenience of having flying ends carried toward it, closed every window in the big factory, and the operatives gasped in the early heat, the odour of oil, the exhausted air.
There are between six and seven thousand operatives and artisans in Medchester to-day who are without work through no fault of their own.
I mean the middle-class manufacturers and the operatives who are dependent upon them.
As the years went on and more and more mills were built, the demand for operatives increased.
Not many years ago the improvidence of the mill operatives was proverbial.
The operatives therefore sometimes found that they had exchanged one sort of economic dependence for another.
The milloperatives of the South have shown little disposition to organize themselves and, in fact, have protested against interference with their right of contract.
Owing to this lack of domestic skill many operatives apparently suffer from malnutrition, though they spend more than enough money to supply an abundance of nourishing food.
It has been a long while since a family of even semi-efficient operatives has been compelled to ask for employment.
So far the whites have not resented the occasional introduction of black operatives into the textile industry.
Some assumed a patriarchal attitude and attempted to provide those things which they thought the operatives should have.
This does not mean that Southern labor is permanently inferior; but a highly skilled body of operatives requires years for its development.
Experiments have been made in employing negro operatives in the textile industry, so far with little success, though the capacity of the negro for such employment has not yet been disproved.
A family containing good operatives could always find employment elsewhere, and perhaps the manager of another mill would not be so scrupulous.
There has been as yet too little disproportion of wealth among the Southern whites to excite acute jealousy on this ground alone, and the operatives have earned much more money in the mills than was possible on the farms.
All my life I have had one steady aim before me, and that has been to purify and ennoble the detective service; and I am sure that all this sort of business is degrading in the extreme to operatives engaged upon it.
No trace was found of the woman until Operatives Grey and Watson had arrived at Chicago, where they immediately circulated among the Spiritualists of that city, who are both numerous and of rather doubtful moral standing.
I accordingly sent three additional men to Rochester with thorough instructions and full information as to the madam's residence and habits, with a description of her tenants, including Bristol and Fox, who were unknown to the operatives sent.
There are enough operatives out there with ultra-waves to locate that globe, and once they spot it they'll point it out to all the other vessels.
While in France we pay unskilled reeling operatives from twenty to twenty-five cents a day Italian workmen doing the same thing get only fifteen or twenty cents.
The operatives making them were paid by the piece and the process of weaving was a slow one.
Henry Ward Beecher's speech on the slavery issue in the Civil War, before the cotton operatives of Liverpool,[60] is a classic example of the direct appeal to the practical interests of an audience.
The Council will direct the justices to read them a lesson on the duty of employers to their operatives and to the State, and threaten them with a summons to Whitehall unless they mend their ways.
The system used in a factory, where all operatives are housed in one or more buildings, is not well adapted to the needs of a contractor whose men may be working on jobs located at points widely separated.
Job Card with Time Chart] Exceptions are found, as a matter of course, and in some industries the general character of the operatives employed is such as to practically insure intelligent record keeping.
It is refreshing also to note the hearty kindness of the Lancashire operatives one to another in time of distress.
Though pinched by hunger, such is the manly and womanly pride of the Lancashire operatives that they care less about privations than to be constrained to surrender any portion, however trifling, of their independence.
Disposed to be honest themselves, the operatives fall so much more readily a prey to unscrupulous agitators.
Pushing through the crowd of operatives lingering on the pavement in front of it, she entered the building.
The operatives must realize that smokeless stacks are not necessarily the indication of good combustion for, as has been pointed out, absolute smokelessness is oftentimes secured at an enormous loss in efficiency through excess air.
It must be impressed upon the operatives that before the fires are cleaned they should be put into condition for such cleaning.
With such a limit of scale formation fixed, the operatives should be impressed with the danger of allowing it to be exceeded.
Such ideas can be dislodged only by demonstrating to the operatives what maximum load the boilers can carry, showing how the economy will vary with the load and the determining of the economical load for the individual plant in question.
Credit co-operatives and agricultural co-operatives fall mainly under the former head, inasmuch as their principal object is to assist production, and to benefit men as producers rather than as consumers.
Other productive co-operatives of agriculture are found in cheese making, bacon curing, distilling, and wine making.
Professor Taussig declares that it "consists essentially in getting rid of the managing employer"; but this description is applicable only to co-operatives of production.
Lord Byron, in the only speech he ever delivered in the House of Lords, had spoken eloquently and generously in behalf of these suffering operatives of the Midland Counties.
Through the agency of this man a very important movement was begun in the middle of the seventeenth century, which ultimately issued in a widespread religious and social reform among the shoemakers and other operatives of Western Europe.
From that night Thomas Cooper was a Chartist; and for the next three years his best powers were devoted to the cause of the suffering operatives and his life-interests bound up in the Chartist movement.
No account of the production of iron in the Forest of Dean can be called complete which does not include some description of the "laws and privileges," the "customs and franchises" of the original operatives by whom the mine ore was obtained.
Perhaps the dissolution of the monasteries interrupted the works at Flaxley and Tintern, by causing the discharge of the old hands and the employment of unskilled operatives in their stead.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
