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...Binkerd continued the debate for Yale, arguing that the trade unions have persistently violated the rights of the non-union man. Among these rights are (1) the right of personal security, and (2) the right to work. Mr. George Curtiss, Justice Brewer and President Eliot testify that there has been a general tendency to invade these rights, and the thousands of injunctions protecting nonunion men from interference, the great mass of legal decisions of the past twenty years, affirming the right to work, and the fact that nearly every state has specific laws against violence and intimidation is proof that...
Referring to the speech of Rabenold. Binkerd said that the affirmative position does not deny the necessity for organization of labor, but denies the benefit of such organization as has existed for the last twenty years. This existent kind or organization has placed its own interests paramount to those of the general community...
...Binkerd, in rebuttal, said that although the negative have dwelt on the past of trade unionism the question is not one that calls for balancing past good results with past evil results. The discussion concerns a general tendency. Moreover, much of the good claimed by the negative came prior to the last twenty years. Furthermore all the industrial progress of those twenty years has not been due to trade unionism. The aims of unionism have been essentially selfish in disregarding the rights of the majority; and this is evidenced by strikes, boycotts and their attitude towards the courts. The affirmative...
...order named. In the rebuttal the order will probably be M. E. Weldy 3L., F. Q. Morton '06, E. M. Rabenold '04. A. B. Weiler sL., is alternate for the Harvard team. For Yale the opening speeches will be given by M. L. Burton '06 T., R. S. Binkerd '04S., and C. S. Beede '06 L., in the order named, and in the rebuttal the order will be the same. The Yale alternates are W. M. Adriance 3G., A. P. McKinstry '05, and J. N. Pierce '05 T. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length, and the rebuttal...
Robert Studebaker Binkerd '04 S., of Brooklyn, N. Y., is 21 years old. He prepared at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn. Last year he was business manager of the Yale Courant and a member of the university debating team against Princeton. He is now manager of the university basketball team, vice-president of the Yale University Athletic Association, and president of the Sheffield debating society...