Word: laski
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Early this year, Harold J. Laski, professor at the London School of Economics, scheduled two speeches at the University of California. One speech was to be made at Berkeley, the other at the Los Angeles campus. Laski later changed his mind and decided to speak twice at the southern school...
Permission for this re-scheduling was delayed, however, until it was too late. Laski charged that California officials had in effect banned him from their campus...
...Laski saw only weakness in "labor pressure groups," as he called them, attacking them from four standpoints...
...danger in the "private pressure" which must be applied to achieve labor's goals. "There can be no real educative effect on the American nation," Laski declared...
...Laski-was firm in defending the rights of admitted Communists to teach, and hold other positions of employment. "As long as the Communist Party is legal in America, and has not been declared unlawful by an act of Congress, Communists, if efficient, have as much right to hold a job as anyone else," he declared...