Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acting as official spokesman for the student body, last Wednesday evening the Student Council passed a resolution in favor of repeal, and asked for a standardization and revision of the old law. This step, timed to greet Mr. Conant upon his return, completes the picture of undergraduate opposition. The Student Council did not flare up in anger. Its decision was based upon a serious weighing of the problem and an observation of the new rule in use during the past month...
With word that various Princeton Wayfarers were forced to return to New Jersey by train instead of the Cape Cod and Raritan Canal route for which they had paid passage, the tentacles of the west coast shipping strike reach far and wide. Labor disputes are tolerable only so long as they keep on the private battle ground between employer and employee. For the minute the public welfare is put in jeopardy, as occurred in an San Francisco two summers ago, the strike inevitably topples over with the weight of popular disfavor, and both management and labor lose the gains that...
...unions a half share in controlling the halls, as well as dealing with the need for shorter working hours on shipboard and recognizing the union leaders as the official voice of labor. When the contracts expired, the shipping companies sought to rid them selves of union interference and return to the old "free for all" system. And since neither side has good temper enough to arbitrate, with Secretary Perkins pointing an accusing finger at the employers as the prime offenders, the seamen have taken the final step of calling out a strike...
...Agreements based on these points could be made without resort to strikes and violence along the coastline, if either side would adopt a spirit of fair play. For clearly the best interests of the shipping trade demand a decent standard of living for sailors, as well as an equitable return to the owners of the ships...
...President is expected to return immediately to Cambridge where he will vote tomorrow. A registered Republican, he will probably vote a State G.O.P. ticket but has not indicated his national preference...