Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Radical labor is taking the bit in its teeth; it is breaking away from the control of its leaders. More and more is this fact being made evident. A few days ago, when the president of the Longshoreman's Association appeared before his organization to call off the strike that has paralyzed shipping in New York, he was mobbed; and it was only with difficulty that he escaped uninjured. A similar situation exists in the New York publishing business, where an outlaw organization of typesetters has broken with its officers and tied up the magazines to such an extent that...
...public holds the remedy for this alarming situation. If the people throw their support on the side of the labor leaders, rebellious labor will see that it is battering against a stone wall. Many people consider that labor unions are not a good institution, yet a man must be deaf and blind not to realize that organized labor, under the leadership of a conservative American Federation of Labor, is far preferable to outlaw, radical labor drifting rapidly toward Anarehy and I. W. Weism...
...Brown of the Royal Air Force, responsible for this piece of good counsel, must have noticed the pitifully small scale of our flying service, compared with that of England. Perhaps our slow progress at present deserves excuse, because other far reaching problems confront the Government in the form of labor questions. But in the near future we are likely to see the formation by Congress of a special Department of Aeronautics. A bill to that effect is before the Senate now. The new department will initiate the first upward push of our tardy development...
...that is not all. The railroads would be bought for their "actual value," whatever that may mean. Labor, according to Mr. Plumb, would not accept the present capitalization of the roads as a true statement of their worth. But how would the true worth be estimated? The courts have ruled that "just compensation" means payment at market value; Mr. Plumb says it does not--a bold assertion, indeed. Endless confusion and too many chances for manipulation are involved in determining this issue...
Profesor Foerster is one of the many students of the labor situation who believe that the present unrest is not caused primarily by the anarchy of the radical elements, either here or in Europe. "Strikes are now more prevalent in America and abroad than at any other period of modern history. They are not, however, due to the utterances of some long-haired European radical, but are caused by two entirely different factors. The first is the increasing pressure of the cost of living, which results in an unrest among the workingmen. The second is the growing feeling among...