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...across the health, in the rain and darkness and screaming wind, struggle the figures of two men. the wind whips and twitches at their cloaks, and the men, bending into it, move with the slowness of despair. Hear them talk as they labour through the darkness with the, subtle echo of madness in their voices, the younger one babbling pointlessly and the old one muttering courses to himself. He curses his daughter and his dismal fate, his weak age and his cracking brains and the fool beside him. Lightening picks pot their faces at odd intervals. Rain glisters the brightly...
John Douglas Merrill: During many years of selfless labour a patient and devoted interpreter of this University to the alumni...
Alfred E. Smith, whose explosive attacks on the Roosevelt administration have rendered him suspect of the nation's liberals, now offers an amendment to the proposed child labour law. He would have its age limit revised from eighteen to sixteen, to leave the question of child labor to the states, and limit federal interference to products which move in interstate commerce. In this way, Mr. Smith believes that the law would be more workable, and more acceptable--that it would stand a better chance of ratification and enforcement...
Keep on pointing out that value no longer arises, as in Marx's day, from labour but from the Cultural Heritage (ref P. de Kruif's writing on wheat, and Mark Carleton...
Perhaps the NRA can weed out child labour, now that adult labour is the issue. Perhaps it can weed out unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...