Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have a common bond. Whether they like it or not, they are parts of the same community. What affects the one inevitably affects the other. Of course, there are radicals who do not stop short of murder. But this does not mean that every man who advances a liberal idea is to be branded a "red" and shunned accordingly as a bomb-throwing anarchist. Nor must the radicals continue to believe that, just because one capitalist exploits his workmen, that all employers are bent on exploitation...
...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
...remind you that the present government of Russia has repeatedly offered to cease its propaganda in return for peace. Do you consider that your present policy toward Russia has resulted in stamping out Bolshevism in the United States? It would be folly to believe that you entertain such an idea. The present policy of the United States toward Russia is a fruitful source of class discord. Laborers all over the country are protesting; they are being driven by your tactics to follow the lead of the railroad workers of France, England and Italy, who threatened to strike if intervention...
...idea of making strikes illegal has been growing throughout the country during the present period of social unrest. Mr. Cummings in his railroad plan recommends its application to the railroad system, legislation now in progress in Massachusetts favors its enforcement in regard to the running of trolley lines; the injuction against the coal strike leaders is a significant sign of the Federal government's attitude...
...songs in a pamphlet entitled "I. W. W. Songs to Fan the Flame of Discontent." It is interesting not because of its disorderly ferocity, which is certainly not characteristic of those to whom it is addressed, the workingmen, but because of the idea it advocates. It is a conception which has recently jumped into prominence in America, especially in Canada--the idea of the One Big Union...