Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ^ This city had also a singularpeculiarity regarding the conduct of its operations. All the capitalemplojed, with the exception of the merest trifle, was owned by non-residents. The management of that capital was in the form of several largecorporations, in each of which was a very considerable community of BUTLEIV8 BOOK. 87 mmA mm. Ir Mks. Butlek rom a FUotograph, BUTLERS BOOK. 89 stockholders. Ilie business affairs of these producti
Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General BenjFButler : Butler's book : a review of his legal, political, and military career . ^ This city had also a singularpeculiarity regarding the conduct of its operations. All the capitalemplojed, with the exception of the merest trifle, was owned by non-residents. The management of that capital was in the form of several largecorporations, in each of which was a very considerable community of BUTLEIV8 BOOK. 87 mmA mm. Ir Mks. Butlek rom a FUotograph, BUTLERS BOOK. 89 stockholders. Ilie business affairs of these productive establish-ments were carried on precisely alike. The bells of each rang theirlaborers in and out of the mills; called them to arise in the morningand take their l)reakfast by candle light, save in the very longest days ;rang them to take their supper at half-past seven in the evening bysuch light as might be at that hour. An intermission of thirtyminutes only was allowed for dinner. By means of carefully adjustedtime-pieces all the bells struck as nearly in unison as was possiblewithout the aid of electricity. Again, no laboring man or woman who had been employed by onecorporation could be employed in any other in the city without apass from the first. Thus the lack of this pass meant no work inLowell. These laboring people had been gathered here almost wholly fromthe several States in New England, with the single exception of someEnglish and Scotch workmen skill
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