2007 Census of Agriculture. Volume 1, Part 6, Geographic Area Series. Colorado, State and County Data

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... must say that the case begins to look like a deliberately concocted scheme on the part of Muir and his coadjutors of the Germ Milling Co. to force as many settlements as possible from millers by covert threats, and when there is no more money to be made in this way, to drop out of court at the lightest expense allowable. We have been led to believe that English courts were too pure, too just and too strict to permit such an outrage to be perpetrated under their eyes and apparently with their support, but the case under consideration has taken on an ugly look and we are more than half persuaded that we have correctly diagnosed it. Meanwhile the millers must settle or fight, and they should unite in doing one or the other. If they fight, we believe they will win. y. yc In Addition to the programme announced by the executive committee of the Millers' National Association, it is desired that any one having anything of interest to bring before the association and the trade generally will communicate with Secretary Seamans, who will give all suitable papers a place on the programme. This is to be a meeting for mutual improvement, and it is to be hoped that all interested in the prosperity of the milling business will be ready to assist in making it a thorough success.!c ii Although the idea is not a new one, it is well to mention, occasionally, the fact that the heaviest burdens borne today among those who live by manual labor, rest upon the shoulders of the women, and to speculate upon the consequences of a general strike for shorter hours on their part. It is a fair estimate to say that if there were a general reduction in hours of labor, not over onehalf of laboring men would devote the extra time thus acquired to any useful purpose, while...