Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...issue is clear. Allow the illiterate, with his low wage, his low standard of living, his tendency to congest in the alums, to enter unrestricted;--gorge the labor market, force hundreds of thousands out of work, prevent any permanent betterment in the laborer's status, further pauperism, lawlessness, revolution, curse the nation with ignorance, widen the chasm between wealth and poverty,--or, restrict! Allow this nation to face its own problems, protect its rights and liberties, establish justice from the laborer up, solve the problems for the true democracy, for ourselves and all nations, not the least for those nations...
...States is not excessive, nor is the volume of our immigration directly responsible for any evils of our social and industrial conditions; and consequently the limitation of numbers by the literacy test would not solve our social, economic and industrial problems. Our re- sources and industries, moreover, need more labor to develop them. Any decided restriction of immigration would greatly increase our cost of living and raise both federal and local taxes...
...rebutting, the negative pointed out that there was a demand for labor and that illiteracy was not a test of working ability. Illiteracy does not necessarily mean undesirable, and there is absolutely no ground for the test as a means to employment. R. W. Stoelzing, of Princeton, was taken ill and was unable to deliver his rebuttal
...trappings of loyalty. To be swept by the whirlwind of excitement and eagerness into action, is not necessarily the highest patriotism, if the action is to be so much wasted effort. To keep to the field of study which is the undergraduate's in the present distribution of labor, and let the regular army do the work in its field--that of fighting--until the field becomes too large for it, is a far saner and none the less patriotic attitude. "Watchful Waiting" has not proved too successful in Washington but it is a catchword that may well be adopted...
...their own service and establish an agency where any newspaper may procure news of the University; and the News Bureau has joined with the CRIMSON in an active attempt to reach newspapers all over the country interested in Harvard. Roughly speaking, as was stated in the article elsewhere, labor will be divided--the CRIMSON gathering the news, and the News Bureau directing dissemination...