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Disputes over the ability of labor leaders to act for national goals must be set in a context of economic realities. Effective mobilization is impossible without the wholehearted cooperation of the nation's 15 million union workers and their leaders--cooperation based on mutual confidence, not coercion or exhortation. If the price of such confidence is the appointment of a top-level adviser trusted by labor, it is reasonable. Wilson has finally recognized this in offering to appoint a man from labor's ranks. So far, however, he has neglected to be specific about the exact scope of the post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Labor Force | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...years of reporting, Sprigle has covered state gravel scandals, the coercion of W.P.A. workers, 14 executions, black marketeering, and war correspondence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Newspapermen, Criminologist Will Discuss Crime at Law Forum | 12/8/1950 | See Source »

...feel it is most definitely coercion to force freshmen to take two, and, in the future, three General Education courses. I feel that this action is all the more unfair and coercive since the University's G.E. courses are so poor. I can, of course, only judge the two I am now in the process of being forced to take...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. E. Courses Pathetic | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

...states: ". . . the film will probably stress the College as 'an adult world, free of coercion' . . ."; and: " . . . the ollege in its true prospective, without any propagandizing." I don't know what the movie is going to show, but the first statement refutes the second and is, in itself, an untruth. It is both propagandizing and untrue to say that the College is: "an adult world, free of coercion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: G. E. Courses Pathetic | 11/28/1950 | See Source »

...committee has not fully agreed on a theme for the movie, although the film will probably stress the College as "an adult world, free of coercion, and full of resources and opportunity." It has been decided that the film should "show the College in its true perspective without any propagandizing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'March of Time' Starts Shooting For University Movie Tomorrow | 11/17/1950 | See Source »

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