Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement or syndicalism as it is known abroad sprang up in France in 1895, and in France it has reached its greatest degree of efficiency. The movement grew out of the general disappointment with legislative methods and the revolt against parliamentary government, in which Bourget, Zola and others took prominent parts. The failure of the Socialists in France to fulfill what was expected of them, once they had been elected to the legislative bodies was the immediate cause of the appearance of syndicalism...
...United States the movement originated in the Colorado miners' strike of 1903, when several of the other unallied crafts were induced to strike with the miners...
...Utopian dream of the I. W. W. movement is a universal strike, in which race lines and nations cease to be factors of importance. The realization of this ideal entails two assumptions: first, that the world's labor can be made to act together with sufficient concentration to obtain control of the centers of economic power; and second, that with the overthrow of capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight...
...Alumni Civic Service Committee, which is asking the Seniors to register with it at their election today, represents at Harvard one of the most noteworthy of recent developments in the social service movement. The colleges have for some time been taking an important part in this movement through local agencies such as Phillips Brooks House; but all college men do not enter the work and many of those who do lose interest after being cut off from their undergraduate organizations. The Alumni Civic Service Committee is part of a project, described in another column, to prevent this training acquired...
...Union and the Speakers' Club will conduct a Forum in the Dining Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. A movement has been started in the University to obtain a new gymnasium, and this, as a matter of widespread interest, has been chosen as the subject for the debate. A resolution will be presented which will be discussed first by men particularly interested in the matter, then by any one present from the floor. At the end of the evening a vote will be taken to discover the decision of the Forum...