Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except drudgery and hardship. They are undernourished and underschooled, and must contribute to the family income as soon as they attain working age. Their years of adolescence are spent tending machines...
...meet with their former employees at all. The papers of March 17 carry the proposal of the Secretary of Labor to mediate between each employer and his own workers. The operators have accepted of course. And why not? Some years ago their workers struck and received all their demands except recognition of their union. Within a year, helpless without a union, all their gains had been taken from them. The employers are united in a local council and operate a joint employment office. There are no valid reasons on which to oppose concerted action by their employees...
...Room. In the editorial and business divisions two sub-chairmen and 12 committeemen will be picked from these competitions; in the other two departments only one sub-chairman and five committeemen will be chosen. These competitions which are the last ones open to Freshmen will continue until April 18, except that in the business department which will not end until April...
...Harvard Crimson assumes no responsibility for the sentiments expressed by correspondents, and reserves the right to exclude any communication whose publication may for any reason seem undesirable. Except by special arrangement, communications cannot be published anonymously...
...will take place in the M. I. T. gymnasium tomorrow and Saturday. Harvard will be defending its title against five teams: Brown, Williams, Tufts, M. I. T., Northeastern. Harvard, Brown and Williams are the favorites and there is little to choose between them. Brown has own all its matches except one, in which they received a set back from the University wrestlers. The Yale matmen, however, who defeated the Crimson last Saturday, came out on the short end of the score when they met Brown several weeks...