Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...there is in the University a notable amount of balance and sanity. Although nearly all the men on the University faculty are actuated by large social sympathy, there is no professor in the Economics department who can fairly be considered an upholder of the revolutionary ideas regarding capital and labor. The only known single-taxer in the University is in the Engineering department; and no course on socialism is given by a "real live" socialist...
Meanwhile our "Eastland," our Peabody and Triangle fires, our child labor problems and our huge production of munitions for private profit in mushroom towns where labor laws are laughed at or abrogated, all these stare us in the face when we speak of "national honor and human justice...
...force sufficient to help guarantee support to the enforcement of its decrees. Educated minds are needed to aid in these movements. We need them to give expert thought to the protection of the industries of this country against the unloading on our markets of cheap foreign goods and labor after this cruel war is over...
...Nearing has done notable work as an investigator in the fields of sociology and economics. As secretary of the Child Labor Commission of Pennsylvania, he did much of the original research upon which the child labor laws of that state are based and is well-known throughout the country as an authority on the subject of wages and living costs in the United States...
...schedule of other lectures to be delivered before the Socialist Club includes Mrs. Florence Kelley, secretary of the National Consumers League; John Spargl, socialist writer; Harry Laidler, secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Soicety; and Cornelius Lehane, former Irish labor leader...