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his wheel chair on the balcony

The community, tense with feeling, waited for an answer to the vital question, What would the Mill workers’ union do? Upon the answer of John Ward’s employees to the demands of the agitator for a sympathetic strike depended the success or failure of Jake Vodell’s Millsburgh campaign. Chapter 19 Adam Ward’s Work It was evening. […]

and his eyes blazing with

Striding here and there about the rooms with uncontrollable nervous energy, he roared, as he always did on such occasions, about his sole ownership of the Mill–the legality of the patents that gave him possession of the new process–how it was his genius and hard work alone that had built up the Mill–that no one […]

on the one hand, and equally

McIver then drew for his fellow manufacturers a very true picture of the industrial troubles throughout the country, and pointed out clearly and convincingly the national dangers that lay in the threatening conditions. Millsburgh was in no way different from thousands of other communities. If the employers could not defend themselves by an organized effort […]

He bent every effort to that end

Two or three of the other smaller unions supported McIver’s employees with sympathetic strikes. But the success or failure of Jake Vodell’s campaign quickly turned on the action of the powerful Mill workers’ union. The commander-in-chief of the striking forces must win John Ward’s employees to his cause or suffer defeat. He bent every effort […]

Let’s count down the best American Idol individual performances of all time!

The mere fact that American Idol is at its 11th season is proof enough of the popularity and quality entertainment provided by the show. At the same time, it makes most think in retrospective mode and create a top of the best individual moments that happened on the stage. Regardless of whether the contestants have […]