1 Well, I've been employing a man as a porter, and he drinks.
2 There was nothing else for her to do, she said, and nobody to employ her.
3 So the next morning Jurgis went to his employer and told him; and the man seized him by the hand and shook it.
4 The wife of the prisoner had been employed in a department near him, and had been discharged for impudence to him.
5 Among these was one of the special policemen employed by Durham, whose duty it frequently was to pick out men for employment.
6 Among these was one of the special policemen employed by Durham, whose duty it frequently was to pick out men for employment.
7 For every one that Jurgis spoke to assured him that it was a waste of time to seek employment for the old man in Packingtown.
8 In the city there was a combination of employers, representing hundreds of millions of capital, and formed for the purpose of crushing the labor unions.
9 So Ona began thinking of seeking employment herself, saying that if she had even ordinarily good luck, she might be able to take two months off the time.
10 It employed thirty thousand men; it supported directly two hundred and fifty thousand people in its neighborhood, and indirectly it supported half a million.
11 If they all combined, they would have enough to make the first payment; and if they had employment, so that they could be sure of the future, it might really prove the best plan.
12 A note signed by him was equal to a job any time at the packing houses; and also he employed a good many men himself, and worked them only eight hours a day, and paid them the highest wages.
13 When Jurgis had been working about three weeks at Brown's, there had come to him one noontime a man who was employed as a night watchman, and who asked him if he would not like to take out naturalization papers and become a citizen.
14 To the two who stood watching while the darkness swallowed it up, it seemed a dream of wonder, with its talc of human energy, of things being done, of employment for thousands upon thousands of men, of opportunity and freedom, of life and love and joy.
15 It would print great broadsides during the campaign; one copy that came to Jurgis was a manifesto addressed to striking workingmen, of which nearly a million copies had been distributed in the industrial centers, wherever the employers' associations had been carrying out their "open shop" program.
16 Chicago was the industrial center of the country, and nowhere else were the unions so strong; but their organizations did the workers little good, for the employers were organized, also; and so the strikes generally failed, and as fast as the unions were broken up the men were coming over to the Socialists.
17 The truth was that she had definitely given up the idea of cleaning anything, under pressure of an attack of rheumatism, which had kept her doubled up in one corner of her room for over a week; during which time eleven of her boarders, heavily in her debt, had concluded to try their chances of employment in Kansas City.
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