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...Gandhi has charged British employers with heartless, indifferent exploitation of their Indian employes. The Royal Commission stigmatized last week the "vicious system" whereby British employers do not hire & fire their Indian help themselves, but leave this to Indian foremen who extort the last anna of tribute from wretches who pay to get a job, pay to keep it. An entire chapter is devoted by the Royal Commission to abuses and extortions practiced upon simple Indian peasants who come to town seeking factory jobs...
...British Labor M. P.?such as famed Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson?who visits the U. S., recoils in horror at the sight of unemployed apple-sellers, denounces the heartless degradation and the public shame, thanks God that the British proletarian can hold up his head and proudly take his "benefits," instead of cringing and smirking like a beggar at some sour-faced old lady who may buy an apple or two tangerines...
...Pity, then, the Evarts-client, Victim of a heartless wile...
...with the freedom of fraternities and other social organizations and possibly restrict the students to a boarding-house existence of prescribed hours of meals, study and sleep. In other words, it is charged that the proposed system, admittedly designed to help lonely and inconspicuous students, would emasculate the rather heartless competition or "rugged individualism" that now produces "Yale...
...Duvall was bowled over by the president's letter. Until then he had not known the cause for the women's dismissal. He was complaining only about the heartless manner of it. But here was a brusque note from President Lowell announcing that Harvard University would not raise the wages of the cleaning women, from thirty-five cents an hour (which Mr. Duvall knew Mrs. Trafton was receiving at the time of her sudden discharge) to thirty-seven cents to conform to the findings of a State board. Mr. Duvall, when he showed me the letter, asked...