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...Lord Balfour, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir William Barrett, Alfred Russell Wallace, Lord Rayleigh, Prof. Gilbert Murray, F. W. H. Myers, Sir William Crookes, Andrew Lang, Prof. Henry Sedgwick, Richard Hodgson, Sir James Barrie, Conan Doyle, and in France, Professors Henri Bergson, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion. In Germany, Z�llner, Fechner, and Weber, all distinguished scientists, were confirmed spiritualists. In the United States, similar organizations have enjoyed the membership?although few of these men have been more than merely open-minded on the subject?of the late Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins, Simon Newcomb, Edward C. Pickering (astronomers), Henry...
...Although much publicity has been given to labor unions in this country in the past few years, there is still a great deal of misunderstanding as to the aims of such organizations," Mr. Robert Fechner, a member of the General Executive Board of the International Association of Machinists, who is lecturing at the Graduate School of Business Administration for six weeks on "Labor Problems" stated in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. In many cases "this misunderstanding is due to the deliberate attempt on the part of certain persons to mislead the public by misinterpreting the purposes of labor...
...another column of the Crimson appears an interview in which Mr. Fechner, lecturer at the Graduate School of Business Administration, calls attention to the wide-spread misunderstanding that exists as to the aims of labor unions. So much publicity is given their discreditable acts, that their usefulness is often overlooked. Among the aims mentioned by Mr. Fechner, is the campaign to carry on educational work among the workers. Not only do the unions advocate compulsory education for children, free text-books and the extension of night schools, but they would have opportunities for study so widely offered that all labor...
...labor relations, which is designed to present every aspect of the problem of industrial relations, and every point of view upon it. Among the other men who are teaching in this course out of their first-hand experience are Wallace B. Donham '98. Dean of the School; Robert Fechner, the prominent labor leader; Whiting Williams, former Vice-President of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of Cleveland, who has spent many months as a common laborer in the steel mills and mines in this country and in England; and Farle D. Howard labor manager of the Hart Schaffner and Marx Company...
...Riegel will give the students a general survey of the labor problem in industry. Dean Donham will discuss it from, the point of view of the executive. Mr. Fechner will speak from the point of view of organized labor, the international Association of American Machinists being affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Howard will speak as a labor manager in an industry in which the wage-earners are organized in an industrial union. Mr. Williams will talk from the point of view of an employer who has worked for a considerable period as a day laborer both here...