Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recent issue of the Alumni Bulletin published an article on the Trade Union College which has just been opened in the High School of Practical Arts in Boston. This college is under the auspices of the Boston Central Labor Union which is composed of 50,000 workmen residing in and about Boston, and any member of the Union may take courses there. The lectures are to be held at night, and each course will cost the student $2.50. The proximity of the University and its well earned record for constructive liberal thought has caused the Central Labor Union to appoint...
...vital significance of this step toward the solution of the labor problem, which is undoubtedly one of the biggest of the twentieth century, must be plain even to the dullest. Today organized labor is in a very trying position; it must, on the one hand, retain the support of the laboring man in its moderate measures as against the violence of Bolshevism, and upon the other, it must see that those moderate measures are put through. English labor men have for many years received such educations with the result that they are diplomats as contrasted with the fighting type...
...Trade Union College for laboring men has just been opened in the High School of Practical Arts, Boston. Professors and instructors from the University. Yale and other institutions of the country are to give lectures. Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, William Z. Ripley, Professor of Economics; R. F. A. Hoernle, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Zachariah Chaffee, Assistant Professor of Law; Samuel E. Morrison, lecturer on History; Francis B. Sayre, lecturer on International Law, Harold J. Laski, lecturer on History and Government; and Herbert Feis, tutor in Economics; are among the men from the University who will give instruction...
...courses are open to all trade unionists of the American Federation of Labor and members of their immediate families for the nominal sum of $2.50 for each course. Among the subjects to be taken up in the spring term are English, labor organization, law, government, economics and physics...
...question of race equality as put forward at the peace conference involves not only the race question proper, but also the economic question of immigration of a type of labor which does not strive for a standard of living equal to our own. Japan, with reference to the Chinese recognizes this economic phase of the question. Only recently a large number of Chinese laborers who were brought to Japan under contract to work for fifty cents a day for three years were sent home at a cost of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Japanese company that imported the Chinese...