Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pondering. Giving in to the strikers at every occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization and strength of the modern labor unions. But an anti-strike law would not fill the bill. Its immediate result would be a general uprising; it takes away from the laboring man his only means of self-protection...
...trouble in the relations between capital and labor has always been the mutual distrust with which they have regarded each other. Employees always suspect that their employers is going to cut down their wages or increase their labors; employers are never sure that their men will not break their contracts; they do not even dare trust the words of the union leaders. The longshoremen's strike in New York is a good example of the failure of the men to abide by the decision of their representatives...
What capital and labor need is a legal backing to their agreements. Unions should be incorporated; breaches of contract on either side should be made punishable by law. Then capital would not be afraid of sudden walk-outs and labor would have no fear of injustice...
College professors of France have agreed to hold a referendum to decide whether or not they shall transform their association into a national union to be affiliated with the Labor Federation. The school teachers already have decided to join the Labor Federation, although their right so to organize has not been recognized by the government...
Teams from each class have been selected to participate in the interclass debates to be held on Monday and Friday of next week. The question is as follows: "Resolved, That the United States shall enforce by law the form of collective bargaining advocated by the American Federation of Labor...