Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Labor government's minister of education,. Sir Charles Trevelyan, has done at last that which Conservative Labour long feared. A resolution forcing trade union members, the actual backbone of the Labour party, to universal strike in the event of war, will soon be steered by him into Parliament. This will mark the first real test of Labour's genuineness, and its success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly...
...commuters to the House libraries; and thirdly, it suggests the dissolution of the Brooks House teams, and the inclusion of their members in the House teams. All these measures, the Council believes, will help to lessen the feeling of exclusion under which the non-members of the Houses labour, and will at the same time give them the opportunity of profiting to the fullest from college associations...
...tutorial system, and improvements in the examinations themselves; or there may be drastic treatment by a swing in the direction of the Continental method, such as that which took place at Chicago. A reorganization of the educational machinery of this kind is an advance sorely needed, and a labour worthy the talents of the next president...
...permanent Boston society for justice in the Mooney case, presented the facts in that case. He showed that Mooney was convicted on the testimony of hired witnesses, and that the prosecuting attorney had previously been employed by a detective agency to watch the activities of Mooney in a labour union. He concluded with a request for financial aid in order that the National Students League might send a delegate to a nation-wide United Front Conference...
...economic theory to readers of the March issue. The between cover and above-board fight between the article entitled "The Technocratic Terror," by T. N. Carver, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, emeritus, and the essay "Marxism After Fifty Years," by Harold Laski, reputed "barin" behind the former Labour party in England, and previous to that, professor of Economics at Harvard, leave only to be decided which is the Alpha and which the Omega of the theories, Laski, whose radical activities resulted in a hasty Hegira from this vicinity many years ago, sees the ultimate doom of capitalism--unless...