Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot. Two years ago, U. S. Chief of Staff Malin Craig decided that engineering and mechanical progress had made the infantry division obsolete, asked his staff for a report on a new unit to embody all changes in power, transport and armament mechanization since the War. Result of his demand, the P. I. D. consists of 13,500 officers and men, contains three unbrigaded infantry regiments, one artillery regiment of four battalions. Most important characteristic of the P. I. D. is its ability to march entirely on wheels. Slogging along on foot, an old style division does well to cover...
...writes the agenda of a constructive liberalism, he finds that the liberal state "must by its own principles encourage and protect cooperative organization of producers, such as farmers and working men, who must sell at once and at any price offered, and in ignorance of the true supply and demand, if they bargain individually...
...condemn the closed shop as "incompatible with a liberal university tradition of the maximum of freedom for all its members, students, and employees." Although objections to the closed shop are frequently made, it is important that something be said in its favor before a decision is made that this demand "must be firmly repulsed...
...demand for a closed shop, however, is an entirely different matter. Implying as it does a complete monopoly for one union, the closed shop is incompatible with a liberal university tradition of the maximum of freedom for all its members, students, and employees, alike in educational and other fields. Unless Harvard has decided to abandon this policy of a maximum of freedom, the closed shop demand must be firmly repulsed...
...table with representatives of its employees has given ample proof. that it is a fully enlightened employer. Despite the fact that dining hall employees are paid full union wages, and that Harvard was unique in that it made no salary cut during the depression the waitresses have a legitimate demand in that they do not receive any tips. It is essentially this, together with the usual demands for recognition and a closed shop, that is being discussed in the conference now going on in Mr. Durant's office...