Those laws which elevate mankind Command us to enlarge our
minds To cultivate our mental powers, And thus endow these minds of
ours Time for this is all we claim Time we struggle to obtain Then
in the name of freedom rise Nor Rest till we obtain the prize
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At one time they tell us that our free institutions are based
upon the virtue and intelligence of the American people, and the
influence of the mother, form and mould the manand the next breath,
that the way to make the mothers of the next generation virtuous is
to enclose them within the brick walls of a cotton mill from twelve
and half to thirteen and a half hours per day. How is it about the
intelligence?
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Petition signed by 2000 operatives: We the undersigned
peaceable, industrious and hardworking men and women of Lowell
confined in unhealthy apartments exposed to the poisonous contagion
of airdebarred from proper Physical Exercise, Mental Discipline,
and Mastication cruelly limited and thereby hastening us on through
pain, disease and privation, down to a premature grave, pray the
legislature to institute a ten-hour working day in all the
factories of the state.
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The general right to contract is part of the liberty of the
individual protected by the 14 th amendment to the Federal
Constitution; yet it is equally well settled that this liberty is
not absoluteand that a state may restrict in many respects the
individuals power of contract. From the SC decision in Muller v
Oregon (1908)
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I should be a traitor to these poor burned bodies:
Schneiderman
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Rose Schneiderman
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Wage Gap 1968 (start of womens movement= 59% 1979 (a decade
later)= 62% 2005-6 (after another 25 years) = 81% And then it
started to widen again 2012: 77%.
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20 of Fortune 500 CEOs are women 10. Meg Whitman -
Hewlett-Packard 19. Ginni Rometty IBM 28. Patricia Woertz - Archer
Daniels Midland 41. Indra Nooyi PepsiCo 45. Angela Braly WellPoint
50. Irene Rosenfeld - Kraft Foods 72. Ellen Kullman DuPont 125.
Carol Meyrowitz TJX 127. Ursula Burns Xerox 234. Sheri McCoy - Avon
Products 250. Deanna Mulligan - Guardian Life Ins. Of America 266.
Debra Reed - Sempra Energy 334. Denise Morrison - Campbell Soup
390. Ilene Gordon Ingredion 396. Heather Bresch Mylan 451. Kathleen
Mazzarella - Graybar Electric 464. Maggie Wilderotter - Frontier
Communications 465. Gracia Martore - Gannett ( 483. Marissa Mayer
Yahoo 499. Beth Mooney - Key Corp