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...third expedient is to reduce wages and to abolish certain restrictive and unjustifiable rules in the national agreements. The railroads are now pressing their petitions before the Railroad Labor Board, and there is likely to be some reduction in wage rates, particularly as regards unskilled labor, which profited to the greatest extent by war conditions, and in working rules. Much publicity has been given to the effect of these restrictive rules. It is not necessary for me to refer to them in detail, but as one example might be cited the case of an important eastern trunk-line, to which...
Since the revolution and the establishment of a new government in Germany, the old ideas of autocracy, of "Deufachland uber Alles," have supposedly been stamped out. But it will take more than a revolution, more than a new government, to abolish the results of thirty years of German propaganda in Germany; it will take a new generation, educated to standards different from those taught in the schools under the old regime. The proposal of von Mach to involve the American Legion in the tangle of a German-Irish alliance, proves that the old ideas of German imperialism have not died...
...farmers of the state have again brought the question of Daylight Saving Repent before the General Court of Massachusetts. The renewed attempt to abolish the extra hour of daylight, which is now provided for by a state law, is backed by a systematic canvass of the rural districts of the state for signatures to a petition, in accord with the united protest of farmers throughout the country against daylight saving; their opposition being based on a claim that it causes difficulties in labor conditions...
...Remedy; Abolish Penalty for Fumbling...
...industry by those who operate it; and by the cooperation of each and all in some effort useful to society, was the substance of the I. W. W. program, according to J. T., or "Red" Doran, the last speaker of the evening. The I. W. W. would also abolish the "master and slave" conditions produced by the wages system and cut out the economic waste in the country, and all these ends would be accomplished by the direct action of exercising the force of economic power at the point of production--not the direct action of the "club" of violence...