Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Labor leaders take advantage of this to sow the seeds of class hatred, talking about the existence of an industrial monarchy in place of a political despotism. Then perhaps the foreigner strikes against his starvation wages, as he did in Lawrence where the average man's wage was $9 a week. Instead of tact and reason, clubs were used by the police in the Lawrence trouble and naturally this only intensified the feeling. The labor leaders tell their men that the troops, sent to protect "life, liberty and property," are protecting property alone; and the men, used to a centralized...
...Jovannovicz Bagocius de Bogaczewski will speak in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Social Service Committee. His subject will be "The Lawrence Strike and the Education of the Foreigner." Mr. Bagocius is an authority on Lithuanian immigration and labor conditions in America. He was born in Lithuania but, incurring the displeasure of the Russian government because of his radical ideas, he early fled to Germany and thence came to America. He is now assistant editor of a Lithuanian paper in Boston...
...Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Steffens' broad education at universities here and in Europe, coupled with long experience as a journalist and writer, have given him a keen insight into contemporary social and political problems. His advanced stand on such questions, and his connections with labor, have won for him the title of "anarchist." Mr. Steffens is not, however, as extreme as the title would imply. He was largely instrumental in obtaining the confession of the McNamara brothers a year ago, and lectured here on the subject last spring. His address this evening will be open...
...many of those who do have any appreciation of its importance or of Harvard's part in it. Whether they be many or few, Mr. Winthrop A. Hamlin has done them a favor by writing an article on that Bureau. As a means of redistributing the labor power of the community it is probably doing more to bring about a correct distribution of wealth and better social conditions than all the muck-rakers and resentful reformers combined...
...Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal. He was appointed lecturer at Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 1899, at Yale in 1905, and at Cornell in 1909. For the purpose of professional study he made a trip through Egypt and Palestine in 1897. He is a regular member of the Central Labor Council...