Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Labor is not entitled to any special privileges in its contribution to the winning of the war, but it is entitled to a square deal. Good wages and fair hours--long hours and hard work, all this is no more than what our boys are joyfully, cheerfully giving in camp and at the front. But Uncle Sam is doing everything in his power to make life wholesome and clean for these boys and the country has responded with unexampled generosity to every appeal. This is splendid and what it should...
Professor Felix Frankfurter, LL.B. '06, Professor of Law at the University, but now on leave of absence, was appointed on Saturday by Secretary of Labor Wilson as administrator of war labor activities. The creation of the office is designed to bring under central control the labor activities of all Government departments having to do with the production of war materials. Professor Frankfurter will co-ordinate the industrial sections of the War and Navy Departments, the Shipping Board, the Department of Agriculture and the War Industries Board. Heretofore all these department have acted independently in obtaining their labor supply...
Since last May Professor Frankfurter has been acting as confidential assistant to Secretary Baker. He has recently returned from England and France, where he studied war labor problems...
...brought before it internal problems of social and economic reorganization; and it has had to contend with questions of race and empire whose seriousness cannot be overestimated. Under such a condition of affairs internal trouble and frequent dissatisfaction with the government's policies have only been natural. The labor question has at all times been grave. The conduct of the war has no doubt occasioned numerous scandals and no little inefficiency. Home Rule and Conscription in Ireland are at present the heated problems of the day. To condemn Lloyd George's ministry because of misinforming the English public in some...
...assumed that every undergraduate intends to do some useful work this summer. Never have the opportunities been so plentiful or so pressing. The need for labor on the farms and in the shipyards is of equal value with the need of trained men for the Army. Any one who does not render help in some way is a slacker no less surely than the draft resister or the deserter...