Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...revenge for the defeat of the University at the hands of Yale, the 1921 debaters humbled their Eli opponents last night at the New Lecture Hall. No more interesting and vital subject has ever been the subject for an intercollegiate discussion. The labor question is second in importance only to the question of the equipment and training of our fighting men. The entire shipping problem comes under the head of labor. How best to get the maximum work from the laboring classes is the problem that we must solve and it is interesting to note that the anti-conscription team...
...main difficulty with such a conscription is that it might start labor troubles in the country. It is a delicate proposition and would have to be handled in an extremely tactful way. One feasible method would be to draft these men for military service, give them uniforms, put them under martial law, divide them into regiments of engineers, and just as we have the Railway Engineers in France today we could have shipbuilding and munition regiments, farming regiments scattered in squads or platoons where they are most needed. Such an arrangement would satisfy the pride of the laboring classes...
...speeches will be 12 minutes long and rebuttals five minutes. The subject as finally agreed upon is "Resolved: That the Government should conscript labor for war industries." All three contesting teams have agreed to leave out of consideration the constitutionality the question...
...call and find not only no place provided for them to live, but no protection from the sharks who take advantage of the demand for rooms and houses to raise all the cost of living. It is no wonder that we have a disastrous turn-over of labor. Nor is anything done to protect and care for their ordinary needs, nothing for their women and children for the social side of their life...
...Knights of Columbus, can handle: neither State nor City can do it, only the Government can. For it means war measures, taking land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every...