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...landlord, farmer, a master manufacturer, ' or merchant, though they did not employ a single labourer, ' could generally live a year or two upon the stocks which ' they have already acquired.' It may be doubted whether this is true at the present day, when joint-stock companies have so largely...

...merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stock which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week ... without employment. In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master...

...merchant, though they did not employ a single workman, could generally live a year or two upon the stock which they have already acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week . . . without employment. In the long run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master...

...combination, not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate” —subsistence. Whereas owners “could generally live a year or two upon the stocks which they have already acquired,” most workers cannot subsist without employment longer than a few days or weeks. As a result, although...

...prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen. We have no acts of parliament against combining to raise it. In all such disputes...acquired. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few would subsist a month, and scarce any a year without employment. In the long run the workman may be...