Word: labor
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That the general labor unrest throughout the country is due rather to the increased cost of living than to a revolutionary tendency is the opinion of Professor William Z. Ripley of the Department of Economics, and now a members of the National Board of Adjustment...
Professor Ripley does not think that Bolshevism is the principal cause of the labor trouble in the United States. "Of course, the European situation has an effect on American workingmen, but it is not the primary reason for the strikes now prevalent in all parts of the nation," he said...
Only in this way, thinks Professor Ripley, can the differences between labor and capital eventually be settled. He looks to the younger generation, to the men who are now being trained in the universities, to help solve the economic problems confronting the nation. An intelligent study of the labor question will do much to aid the country to find a pacific solution to the acute problems of the present time, he believes. But Professor Ripley is not affraid that the United States is facing a period of actual revolution such as Russia is now passing through. He is confident that...
...profession an ecclesiastic, by temperament a scholar, by force of circumstances and of his own character a statesman. Early attracted by the scholastic philosophy he created when still young the Institute of Philosophy at Louvain, and possessing the strenuous industry of a scholar he took as his motto "Labor as a good soldier of Christ." His philosophic system comprehended the thought of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of all ages and the discoveries of modern psychology; and his fame, with that of his school, had spread into all lands, when...
...writer agrees with the CRIMSON editorial condemning lynching, but asks any man what he would have done were he a resident of an ordinarily well-conducted and prosperous community in which such crimes had been perpetuated. Emigration of negro labor from the South to the Omaha packing plants, which are the second largest in the world, has been exceedingly great since 1917, and the total number of negroes is estimated at more than 10,000. The negro problem in the South, and now, as never before, in the Middle West, is steadily advancing to the fore. With the perpetration...