Word: labor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to appreciate properly President Eliot's contribution to the solution of social questions, it is necessary first to consider the real nature of those questions. The labor question is primarily one of hostility between two classes of the community--the employees in large industrial establishments and their employers. This hostility lies deeper than the questions of wages and the hours of labor. Such questions are the most frequent subjects of controversy, but if there were no questions of wages or hours of labor, other issues would be found upon which class hostility would express itself. It is obvious that...
...there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance and of a truly...
...more far-reaching importance than the labor problem is that of maintaining democratic ideals and the democratic virtues of self-respecting freedom, tolerance and regard for law and the common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings...
...public meeting of the Political Club, held last evening in the New Lecture Hall, Mr. James R. Garfield, head of the Bureau of Corporations of the Department of Commerce and Labor, spoke on "The Civil Service of the United States," and General William Crozier, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the War Department, on "War Preparations in Time of Peace." Dean Hurlbut presided...
...Club will hold a meeting open to the public, at 8 o'clock this evening in the New Lecture Hall. Mr. James Rudolph Garfield, son of President Garfield, formerly United States Civil Service Commissioner, and at present head of the Bureau of Corporations, in the Department of Commerce and Labor will speak on, "The Civil Service of the United States." General William Crozier, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, in the War Department, and a member of the Hague Tribunal, will give a lecture illustrated by the stereopticon, on "War Preparations in Peace Time." Dean Hurlbut will preside...