Word: americans
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...state has specific laws against violence and intimidation is proof that this tendency toward the violation of the rights of non-union workingmen has constantly expressed itself. This tendency need not always express itself in violence, but may do so in peaceful policies, as in the closed shop. Most American courts have held the "Closed Shop" illegal, yet there has been a growing movement toward it, culminating in the Miller case (1903) at Washington, and the resolution of the recently adjourned meeting of the American Federation of Labor, denouncing the "Open Shop," whether under private or government ownership. This arbitrariness...
...discussion of the non-union man's condition makes clear that in practical American life today there exists a working class with class interests. Solidarity of this class is requisite to promote its interests. Hence it has been true that the non-union man has at times lost a personal and temporary advantage, that the larger and permanent interests of the class embracing union and non-union men alike might be promoted. The arguments of the affirmative relative to restriction and number of apprentices were considered and the results of such restriction were claimed to be unimportant in their actual...
Unions would strive to dominate the entire industrial world, to put a monopoly price on union labor, to limit production, and to dictate to employers. All this bodes no good to labor, rather constitutes a profound menace to American labor and American industry...
...with them have rights guaranteed them under our free government. But the fact that this is a nation bent on the betterment of the laboring class, that trade-unionism has been agitated and reagitated, and yet has failed to receive the support of eighty-five per cent of the American wage-earners, is strong proof of our contention,--namely, that trade-unionism for the past twenty years has pursued unwise methods, has violated rights fundamental to our whole social structure, has fostered a spirit of selfish tyranny, has sought to dominate the industrial world, and has placed its own interests...
...Adriance 3G., A. P. McKinstry '05, and J. N. Pierce '05 T. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length, and the rebuttal five. The judges will be: President W. H. P. Faunce, D.D., of Brown University, Mr. J. G. Milburn, president of the Pan-American Exposition, and General F. V. Greene. President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale will be the presiding officer...