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After a summary of the "critical test in steel" and its success, the speaker turned to the "enigma," John L. Lewis. Claiming that "no one as yet among his followers thinks that Lewis will be faithless," Walsh claimed that many former Lewis enemies are now working with him. Powers Hapgood was mentioned in this connection as a man who thinks Lewis has been "converted...
Aside from these facts, one may object to a peace meeting being addressed by Powers Hapgood, though the causes of peace and of labor are surely not wholly separate, and Mr. Hapgood is a well-known liberal as well as labor sympathizer. The many backers of the Peace Strike indicate that it will not place "undue emphasis . . . upon the problems that confront labor." It is bad taste to speak of a professor from another great university as "haranguing" an audience, before the fact; it is simply misrepresentation to describe Professor Lovett as you have, and to omit all reference...
...plenty of opinions expressed. There is, however, some question as to whether those opinions will be student views, and it is the choice of speakers which causes this question. Instead of addresses by noted advocates, statesmen or diplomats, the gathering will be harangued by two Labor men, Powers Hapgood, of the New England council of the C.I.O., and Robert Morse Lovett, editor of the New Republic, national chairman of the League for Industrial Democracy, and pro-Labor sympathizer. What these men have to say may be very pertinent to current events and of interest to economics-minded undergraduates, but whether...
...this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely to the cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...
...Powers Hapgood, '21, organizer for the Committee on Industrial Organization, will speak on the "Organization Drive of the Automobile Industry" in a public meeting to be sponsored by the Teachers' Union on Wednesday evening, February 24, at 5 o'clock, in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House...