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...entire history of knowledge this is the greatest opportunity . . . for the study of man and his career. . . . The noblest task in the study of man is to recover the story of the human career, which culminated in the emergence of a religion of divine fatherhood and human brotherhood...
...other chapters; the institution of Anniversary Meetings in which the greatest of Harvard's graduates brought new and vital thoughts to the University; the establishment in 1785 of a library for the use of the Society; the foundation in 1797 of a fund "to relieve those members of our brotherhood, whom fortune may distress, to accomodate those who may wish for assistance, and in general, to extend the advantages which result from a connection with PBK." From the year 1831, the best of these early creations of the chapter were retained, and a new, more mature point of view...
Strongest of all unions are the "Big Four" Brotherhoods-Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen-with 17 smaller rail groups. Their membership blankets the U. S. and Canada. First move to reduce the Brotherhood pay scale came last month in Canada where Canadian National and Canadian Pacific began negotiating directly with their employes for a voluntary wage cut. Last week the poll of C. N. and C. P. workers still remained untabulated. Upon its result largely depended the attitude of Brotherhood men in the U. S. toward pay cuts...
...Brotherhood leaders in Cleveland expressed surprise when informed that N. Y. C. was negotiating directly for a lower wage scale. Technically, railroads contract with the national organizations for their union labor. The reduction must be voluntary, under the law. If the railroads attempt to force a cut on employes, the entire issue will be thrown into the lap of the U. S. Board of Mediation for settlement...
...finance and politics. They decided to form banks which could lend money to fair employers, withholding it from concerns which favored the open shop. If Capital had to be fought, it would be fought with Capitalistic weapons. First labor organization to founder in this foreign field was the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers which sank $20,000,000 of its hundred-million resources in Florida's swamps in 1926. Total resources of the 22 Labor banks showed a decrease even in the boom years...