Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seems as if the labor of editing this exceptionally large number had exhausted the Monthly board, and this contribution of A. W. W.'s had slipped in as they slept. No other excuse is possible. For there is here an abundance of matter--a clever character sketch by C. M. Rogers that shows he could write a story if he only had a plot; a reminiscence of boyhood written by the editor-in-chief with vivacity and charm; a story of Gilbert V. Seldes which teases the reader unnecessarily and leaves one uncertain as to whether the author is very...
These coolies, who perform harder physical labor for longer hours than do most beasts of burden and in addition undergo the worst of privations and hardships, are nevertheless possessed of the greatest cheerfulness. Naturally immobile and entirely devoid of nervous emotion, the race is characterized by the greatest patience, and many centuries of suffering have strengthened it against all external conditions...
...Utopian dream of the I. W. W. movement is a universal strike, in which race lines and nations cease to be factors of importance. The realization of this ideal entails two assumptions: first, that the world's labor can be made to act together with sufficient concentration to obtain control of the centers of economic power; and second, that with the overthrow of capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight...
...Seminary of Economics. "Political Activities of the American Labor Unions," by Mr. J. G. Ohsol, in Upper Dane...
...great conservative force in the political conflict which actively beginning in 1912, is to go on for years to come. Mr. Henderson believes that "the time will inevitably come when the Progressive party, its reform program enacted, will disintegrate; for capital, which fills the party's war chest, and labor, which gives it most of its votes, cannot long lie together in peace." Inasmuch as from the Socialist point of view, the Republican and Democratic parties have already ceased to be vital forces, this would leave a clear field to the Socialist, were it not for an obstinate and eternal...