Word: special
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Labor is not entitled to any special privileges in its contribution to the winning of the war, but it is entitled to a square deal. Good wages and fair hours--long hours and hard work, all this is no more than what our boys are joyfully, cheerfully giving in camp and at the front. But Uncle Sam is doing everything in his power to make life wholesome and clean for these boys and the country has responded with unexampled generosity to every appeal. This is splendid and what it should...
...taking land, fixing prices, and holding them, preventing land-speculation and every other form of robbery and injustice which in the end comes back on labor; it means building houses, schools, hospitals, theatres and churches; giving its workers as it gives its fighters the best conditions possible for the special job they have to do. The Government has at last set up the agency to do this, and put good men in charge. Let every man who has the winning of this war at heart push this work forward.--From statement by R. Clipston Sturgis...
...University's quota to the June Camp for members of the senior division units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps commenced yesterday morning when a company of 98 men, composed largely of men holding commissioned or non-commissioned offices in the corps, assembled on Soldiers Field for special instruction under Colonel Smyth, M. S. G., retired. The men drilled from 8 until 12 o'clock in the morning, save for an hour's rest in the middle of the forenoon, practising company and platoon formations. The work will continue for at least two weeks, and will be so arranged that...
This afternoon the University R. O. T. C., organized into two new American companies, will carry out a combat exercise at Fresh Pond before the University Board of Overseers, who are to hold a stated and special two-days' meeting in Cambridge today and tomorrow. The maneuvers are scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock, but the different companies will fall in at their regular places to march to the trenches at 2.30 o'clock...
...Special Order...