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...Summer tide of books recedes, these loom as foremost in significance...
...were undeniably low. And when the mill owners announced, early last April, that wages were to be cut by 10%, reducing the average wage to $17 a week, the workers were stirred to serious and active protest. Out of 27 mills walked some 27,000 operatives, spinners and weavers, loom fixers, slasher tenders. They left 3,000,000 spindles idle, and 50,000 looms...
...Duce v. II Papa. The cold and formal relations existing today between the Government of Italy and the Vatican are due, in no small measure, to that shadow of mutual suspicion still cast by the original anti-Roman Catholic proclivities of Signor Mussolini, which loom so large in the pages of Claudia...
Early in April, notices of a 10% wage-cut were posted in the textile mills of New Bedford, Mass. Out walked the workers. Last week, the eleventh of the strike, the signs were still posted. Some 22,000 mule-spinners, loom-fixers, weavers, carders, slasher-tenders, fram-spinners and doffers, warp-dressers, beamers and twisters had lost about $4,000,000 in wages and the mills had lost some $1,820,000 in idle overhead. Mediation by citizens remained futile. New Bedford was a dead city, except for the fish trade. . . . But the cloth market's season for fall...
However, though generals still loom before us who are not seniors, there remain finals to be passed. Now that the first one of five exams are over it is with renewed confidence that we face the remaining ones. When those are behind us, the desire will be to close our books until September. Doubtless we may be tempted to do some wellchosen reading. For those who are fortunate enough to come up for oral extensive reading is particularly helpful. In addition we suggest it for those who would like to see Radcliffe enter an intellectual contest. --Radcliffe Daily...