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...FROM SERFDOM TO BOLSHEVISM-Lippincott...
Optimism distinguishes Mr. Green's view of the labor situation. He depicted the steady rise of workers through centuries of slavery, serfdom, and industrial bondage and showed that the only solution to the differences between labor and capital lies in equal rights for both...
...give the Third Internationale the possibility to continue its destructive propaganda in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. The object of this propaganda is world upheaval-that is to say, the ruin of Christian civilization and the plunging of the entire earth into the dark abyss of barbarism, pauperism and serfdom to the advantage and satisfaction of only a small group of fanatics and a dissolute group of men who have lost honor and conscience, and hope to exploit this upheaval for the gratification of their cupidity and vicious appetites...
...principle of the open shop by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Erectors' Association as an aggression against workers; but in this matter he deals too in useless generalities only, alleging that the "open shop" advocacy is a means toward "re-establishing a condition of serfdom among the great masses of the toilers of American. It would seem that when Mr. Gompers, as a leader and a lover of his country, comes before a body of college men to defend the principle of the closed shop, he should be more careful of his facts. Boston Transcript...
...Avenel traced the peasant from the early conditions of serfdom, through the steps of enfranchisement, which took place on account of the scarcity of labor in the Middle Ages. The Lords gave their servants their lands, only keeping the rents and indirect rights for themselves. This made the servants definitely associated with the land, and was a great element in retaining their services. Through this means all peasants became proprietors, but they were forbidden to sell or rent their land...