Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some such program should have been advanced long ago. We have gone on long enough fostering these little nationalities in our midst, all but encouraging them to organize, sometimes even withholding the means of their becoming acquainted with our language and institutions. Employers have often found that ignorant foreign labor was cheaper than American labor. Through this indifference of ours to the process of naturalization arose a large part of the trouble which the Department of Justice and the Secret Service have had with the "hyphenated Americans" during...
...Overseers seems to me particularly unthinking, even for journalism. The purchase of property between the Avenue and Charles River is a further step toward making Cambridge fit for human habitation. Days may dawn when, in spite of abattoir, trolleys and funeral processions, Harvard will breathe a sense of academic labor and repose. We must not fall into the national blunder of making a desert of empty buildings and calling it scholastic peace, but even such misuse of money would be wiser than the increasing of instructors' salaries...
...also contended by the affirmative that the class of immigrants that will come to this country if the gates are thrown open will be the Bolshevist class which will make the already complex labor problem more difficult to solve...
Supporting the negative the Freshman team based its main arguments on the facts that complete restriction to foreign labor would be very un-American, and that unskilled labor will soon be in greater demand than could be supplied alone by returning soldiers...
...last point of the negative was made in refutation of the statement that immigration would increase the number of labor agitators and Bolshevists. They maintained that immigration would have the opposite effect, that those inclined toward Bolshevism would remain in the countries where it is now flourishing...