Word: labors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...member of the Finance Commission, will talk on "The Need of Training for Social Service." He will speak particularly of his experiences in relief work after the San Francisco earthquake and the Chelsea and Salem fires. Professor W. Z. Ripley of the Economics Department will deal with the labor question in its relation to undergraduates. Other speakers will be D. Lewis 1L, W. C. Morgan '17, and M. Hawkins '18, each of whom will speak about some phase of social service work with which he has been directly connected. C. Higginson '17 will preside...
Something like a new test for labor comes into view when a trades union congress assembled at Birmingham, England, can pass a resolution declaring that 'members of the clerical profession," being "a large class of able-bodied men engaged in unproductive employment," should not be exempted from the operations of the military...
...time which demands united sacrifice and every class in England is making it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in organized labor...
...this, of course, there is nothing new. In Columbia University in the various faculties and schools there are men in touch with practically every type of work that is carried on in the outside world, from the construction of highways to the drafting of labor legislation. These members of the faculties in their individual capacities often advise students about the opportunities which come to their notice and serve outside agencies by bringing promising students into touch with them. But the work is not organized. There is no comprehensive survey of the thousand and one careers that are now open...
...Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the United States, will talk of education in his native country, and Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield will discuss industrial education. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will speak on the relation of the American school to the workingman...