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Registration for the all-day Workshop will be between 9-10 a.m. George C. Homans, professor of Sociology, and Kenneth J. Kelly, secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts AF of L, will also speak...
Dunlop adjusts to his double life with a blunt, plain spoken charm which can put both students and labor leaders at case. His students talk of his habit of referring to the biggest men in labor and management by their first names. The head of the AF of L is "George," the Secretary of Labor "Jim." At a beer party he threw for his class, one student asked him about the recent resignation of Secretary of Labor Martin Durkin...
Five of New York's top writers, apparently enjoying their unexpected idleness after a strike of AF of L photo-engravers, yesterday turned down a mercy offer of the CRIMSON to provide an outlet for their columns in the Harvard daily...
...period of relief before the dock workers' strike flares up again, the public needs to reconsider its entire attitude toward this essential industry. For unless there is a basic change in this attitude, all the crime commissions, waterfront commissions, and all the reform attempts of the AF of L will be as temporary as the anti-strike injunction itself...
Perhaps it had to take a national emergency to impress this problem upon the public mind. We only hope it sticks. The AF of L has the right alternative and the inter-state waterfront commissions have the right approach. But the dockers need the understanding of more than organized labor, and state commissions bog down without public support. Stability on the docks will only be realized when the public so acts to show its realization that dock workers are not merely undesirable men in an essential industry, but human beings with the same dignity and needs as everybody else...