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Please let me ask Mr. Laski one question. He draws a comparison between the police of Boston, who are on strike, and soldiers in the army. Would he advise, or rather, justify, the striking of soldiers who were dissatisfied with pay or conditions...
...seems to me a particularly dangerous and unwise time for a man in Mr. Laski's somewhat authoritative position to attempt to justify the desertion of their duty by the officers of the law. NORMAN H. WHITE...
...Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor is the right of any red-blooded American citizen." This statement coming, as it does, from one of our instructors and a specialist on such matters, is worthy of the serious attention of all members of the University. Is Mr. Laski sure this statement applies to everyone? Or does it exclude such people as soldiers and sailors, and other employees of the executive branch of government...
...believe, however, that Mr. Laski holds no such extreme view, and that his regard for what he considers the ill-treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this...
That every man has a right to affiliate himself with any organization or union to better his own economic condition is the view of Mr. H. J. Laski, University Lecturer in History and Government, Contrary to the usually accepted opinion, he would lay the blame for the police strike not on the policemen, but on the commissioner, who, according to Mr. Laski, was in large measure responsible for it. He asserts that the commissioner, knew that the men were forming a union, and later knew that they were going to strike, but that he failed to take such action...