Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...labor involved in keeping track of the 700 or 800 men, graduates and non-graduates who constitute the rock over whom the modern class secretary serves as the shepherd, is very great. It usually happens that when Seniors elect their secretary they have little idea of his duties, or of the qualifications of a the man they select. Sometimes, the class secretaryship seems to be given as a consolation prize to a candidate who failed to get a marshalship. Occasionally, a popular athlete finds himself landed in a position which he accepts as a token of the good will...
Miss Helen Todd, of San Francisco, spoke in Emerson D last evening on the work of the women of the West against the child-labor conditions of Illinois and the condition of the judiciary in San Francisco. Miss Todd, through her connection with Hull House in Chicago, has gathered her facts concerning the working classes t first hand, and s factory inspector in Illinois she learned of the disgraceful treatment of children in the glass factories of that state...
...through the last legislature a minimum wage bill, with the power to enforce; an endowment bill for teachers; and a home rule and taxation bill which relieves the farmers of exorbitant taxation on property and puts some of it on idle land. They also succeeded in passing a child-labor law which prohibits a child under 18 years of age from working for more than eight hours...
...recall of Judge Weller, a corrupt police court magistrate. From him it was impossible for wronged girls to get any justice whatever, and the purely nominal bail of the wrong-doors was fixed at anywhere from $50 to $150. In face of the opposition of wealth, organized labor, and the newspapers, the women concentrated their efforts in putting the recall into effect. To the consternation of San Francisco, Judge Weller was recalled and since then a change has swept through every political office in California, forcing the holders of elective positions to feel their direct responsibility to the people
...hearing yesterday, Langley was found to have a long prison record having served time in New York, Boston and Cambridge. He works under several aliases, among which are Wilson, Jackson and King. He was sentenced to one year's labor at the State farm...