Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Several members of the University Faculty are announced as serving on the staff of instruction of the Trade Union College, which, under the auspices of the Boston Central Labor Union, will open next Monday. The list includes Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, Professor William Hocking '01, of the Philosophy Department, Professor R. F. A. Hoernie, Professor R. K. Hack, Professor Z. Chafe '13, Mr. S. E. Morison, instructor in history, and Mr. H. J. Laski of the History Department...
...courses offered are open to all trade unionists of the American Federation of Labor and their families. More than 200 prospective candidates have field applications, although the regular enrollment has not yet started. Courses are offered in English Composition, Philosophy, Public Speaking, Literature, History and Government, Labor and Physical Science. Classes in each course will meet one evening a week from...
Lynching, like Slavery, has never recognized racial or geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation...
Another great factor of the industrial world has been unpatriotic enough, in this most critical stage of reconstruction, to curtail the production of a national essential. In answer to Mr. Wilson's plea for the postponement of their strike until after the labor conference at Washington October 6, the steel workers state: "My president, delay is no longer possible. . . . We fully understand the hardships that will follow, and the reign of terror that unfair employers will institute. The burden falls upon the men, but the great responsibility therefor rests upon the other side." The strikers make no attempt...
...group of public officials are allowed to force the state governments to permit them to become subject to the decrees of an outside body like the American Federation of Labor, the United States will soon become a nation controlled by labor unions instead of by an independent electorate. The last step would be a unionized army and navy...