Word: labor
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...Francis W. Hirst, editor of the "London Economist," who delivered a lecture on "The London Money Market" yesterday afternoon, will speak on "The Political Economy of War" in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. He will take up the effect of war on labor and industry, its economic consequences, and the best method of financing it: and he will describe the modern competitions in armament and will discuss the naval rivalry of nations. The lecture will be open to the public...
President Eliot spoke last Saturday before the Massachusetts State Child Labor Committee on the education of boys and girls as skilled laborers. He emphasized the fact that the rules of labor unions in this country limit the number of apprentices to far below the natural demand for skilled labor, and are consequently harmful, as they allow only a certain limited number of boys and girls to become skilled laborers. President Eliot discussed the perfection to which the German system of trade schools has been carried. In these schools compulsory education lasts until the age of sixteen, while in the American...
After graduating from Harvard, Mr. Hitchcock entered the Columbia University Law School, receiving the degree of LL.M. in 1895. In 1903 he was made chief of the department of commerce and labor, and at the Republican convention in 1904 he filled the position of assistant secretary. The following year he became assistant postmaster general, resigning last June to manage the Republican national campaign. His able work in this position was one of the chief factors which contributed to Taft's success...
...instituted. In the fall of 1894 Mr. George decided to form a legislature and institute a system of coinage. The thought struck him that this meant a republic, and the next summer he formed the George Junior Republic. Three great lessons are taught the citizens. They learn that honest labor is something to be admired; they gather a knowledge of legal proceedings, and, most important of all, they learn the meaning of true citizenship, the one absolute essential of a democratic government...
...methods of reform have been proposed: by business, and by labor. The former is absolutely useless, for business is as rotten as politics. There is the same kind of treason in the insurance companies as in the legislature. Labor is equally unfitted for reform; the San Francisco labor government is as corrupt as any business enterprise. The old game of politics, the kind that Mr. Roosevelt plays, is one of compromise. The politician bought his position and kept it. Now the political aspirant should promise to follow out a definite program and make others promise and keep their word...