Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reign of free competition in the nineteenth century it was generally assumed that the employer had a right to all the profit he could make. Faced by a mass of competitors he could not boost the price and thereby make the public pay. But with the growth of organized labor came a demand from the workers that all payment should be at a standard rate, and hence that the profit on inventions should be solely theirs...
There is an increasing portion of Labor-Unionists in the student body and the number of those who believe that Sovietism and Communism represent human Utopia is by no means small. These gentlemen would find relief of mind and body in a place where their most radical thoughts could gain utterance...
...question under debate was worded as follows: "Resolved, That the United States should enforce that form of collective bargaining advocated by the American Federation of Labor." The Sophomores, who upheld the negative, were awarded a 2 to 1 decision, and the speeches of Phelps and Rosenblatt were given especial commendation...
...demand for class solidarity and direct action on the part of some labor leaders has done much to bring about the present mistrust. But the capitalist, who has turned his back on abuses which have occasioned this solidarity, has not helped the situation. Both are like blind men, thinking they perceive an enemy and thrashing about wildly in mutually destructive combat. Only when the energy thus wasted can be turned to a sane recognition of true facts, can we avoid revolution and attack the abuses which obstruct the road to progress...
...Sophomore and Senior teams will meet in Emerson D tonight at 7 o'clock. The question for discussion is the same as that in the two preliminary debates: Resolved, that the United States should officially enforce the plan of collective bargaining as advocated by the American Federation of Labor. The affirmative of this question will be up-held by Messrs. Rently, Stoddard, and Green for 1920, and the negative by Messrs. Phelps, Hardy, and Rosenhlaff...