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...board with compulsory powers of investigation will the germs that breed industrial strife be destroyed. And with such a board functioning, the menace of strikes based on ignorance, misrepresentation, and falsehood would be removed; and industrial justice, one of the great promises of American life, would be measurably nearer fulfillment...
...They early came under Germany rule, but those nearer to the coast under Venetian," the speaker declared. "Their native aristocracy was displaced or Germanized. Their towns were largely German. Already, by the 13th century, they were under the house of Austria, and the history of their territory has been Austrian." The progress of Germanization has been very slow and unconscious until recent years...
...Geer heads a new institution which has already proved its value to the Freshmen, and has given the University a by-product in making the phrase "athletics for all" nearer true than ever before...
...produces a makeshift never based on a scientific investigation, peace is proclaimed (but a peace which is merely an armed trace), the public sits back, breathes a sigh of relief and forgets all about it. Industrial Conferences sit at Washington, break up and sit again, but leave us no nearer a definite industrial code or method of settling strikes than we were before...
...proposed code, it does not settle any of the vexed questions now facing the country as the result of the conflict between capital and labor; its only real constructive force is that it aims to create special industrial courts to decide industrial matters. Such a system would bring us nearer an equitable settlement of disputes without resort to strikes. But an industrial court is not enough; definite principles in the form of a code are needed. The conference did not show where the line is to be drawn between industries whose maintenance is essential to the life of the nation...