Word: labors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who are interested in the ever present problems arising from the conflict between capital and labor, Economics 6a presents an admirable summary of the most vital issues. This course, given by Professor Ripley for many years, was taken over by Professor Persons of Boston University last year. The latter instructor, however, was called to Washington this fall to take up a government position as an expert on the question of unemployment, and to date no successor has been announced for the course...
Regardless of whom the instructor may be, the subject matter of the course dealing with strikes, governmental control of labor policies, arbitration, unemployment, and other problems closely associated with the labor question should prove valuable to all who have any interest in current problems. For those who think courses in Economics too theoretical, Economics 6a is an excellent corrective, for throughout the half year, one is constantly finding instances in the daily newspapers with which the week's work is directly concerned. For those concentrating in labor problems, the course is indispensable, since it takes in a wide field which...
...equal readiness to cast off human machinery when its efficiency becomes impaired. In developing his discussion of this aspect of American industry he made a few observations on the subject of unemployment. He explained that, up to the present time, the expansion of industry and the mobility of labor, which follows demand, have served to prevent unemployment from growing into a national problem such as it is in England. Though reliable governmental statistics relative to unemployment in the United States are wanting. Mr. Watkins predicted that it will become a great problem within a few generations and will seriously affect...
...Sherman Act forbade conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce or monopolization of any part of trade or commerce. Though the law was aimed at large corporations, an attempt was made to apply it as an anti-Labor measure by arguing that a labor union was a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Clayton Act (1914) restated and explained the Sherman Act and specifically declared that the labor of a human being was not a commodity and that labor unions were not trade-restraining conspiracies...
...such pandemonium as might be caused in Congress by barely hinting that the U. S. cannot prosper without cutting the interest rate on Liberty Bonds. "Explain! Explain!" roared Conservatives at pallid, crippled Chancellor Snowden; but for two whole days he maintained impassive silence. Horrid inference: the avowedly Socialist Labor Cabinet harbors hopes of someday tampering even with sacrosanct War Bonds...