Word: met
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passaic, N. J., 10,000 workers are striking for the right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...
...police of Passaic and its suburbs have adopted two means of handling the strike. In Passaic and Clifton all attempts at mass picketing have met with police opposition. Clubs are wielded, tear bombs are thrown, and fire hoses are trained on the strikers. As a result the slightest spark may ignite the magazine and precipitate serious riots. On the other hand the police of Lodi and Garfield do not oppose the strikers. On the contrary, they march alongside the parades and clear the traffic for them. There has been no violence or ill feeling in these latter towns. What...
...pressing requirement for unrestricted funds. In every department money is needed for assistance and equipment, such as to obtain the maximum of productivity and the minimum of administrative work for the ablest teachers and investigators. This is the one vital need of the University. According as it is measurably met or not, the prestige of Harvard is maintained or lost...
...college. The efforts that are now being made to improve the methods of instruction in Harvard University, and to stimulate intellectual ambition in a large proportion of the undergraduates, are very costly, but the object is well worth the cost. When we ask how this is to be met, there is but one answer: unrestricted funds...
Harvard must have unrestricted funds first to improve teachers' salaries, as Dean Moore has said, "all along the line." Harvard is again faced with the problem of underpayment and with a new moral deficit each year which is met only by the self-sacrifice and denial of the underpaid teacher. Harvard's staff of younger teachers is its great reserve. It must have at all times only the best men, regardless of the cost. The greatest emphasis must be placed on the quality of teaching and research. If this is clearly recognized, and the means are provided, Harvard's place...