Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...question, as announced previously, will be "Resolved, that the United States should prohibit the immigration of unskilled labor for four years...
Professor T. N. Carver will speak on "A Constructive Labor Program" in the fourth lecture of the Phillips Brooks House Forum, which will be given in the Parish House of the First Church, Harvard Square, at 7.30 o'clock this evening. Professor Carver was formerly adviser on economics to the Agricultural Department at Washington...
Ignorance and illiteracy are the greatest possible obstacles to a free democratic government, a spirit of patriotism and Americanism. It is difficult to expect a man who cannot write his own name, whose whole life is bound up in six days of manual labor and a pay roll at the end, to appreciate the advantages of our particular constitution. Why should he not join the I. W. W., the Bolsheviki or any other organization that promises him more personal advantages, more money, more power. The agents of destruction are amply provided with arguments for his consumption...
This is the third of the series of lectures for Harvard men arranged under the auspices of the Phillips Brooks House Association to promote interest in the problems of the day. Professor T. N. Carver will address the fourth meeting, a week from tonight on "A Constructive Labor Program...
...create a simon pure American out of a "foreigner," without any assistance or supervision on our part. The results of this system are seen in the foreign settlements which have now become a part and a burden of every American city, and in the prominent place that un-American labor is ocupying in disturbance throughout the United States at the Present time...