Word: strife
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...social class", of giving him truths rather than myths, much may be achieved. Certainly this makes for individuality more than any possible outside reforms could do. If other motives are ever to replace the personal gain motive, education of this nature is the means. And if class and race strife is ever to give place to peaceful endeavor, it will come through teaching the child the truth about himself and others. By bending its efforts to reform from within educational reform the Youth movement should do an invaluable and permanent work...
...Wolcott Colt Treat '23--Roberts's Speech to the Strikers from "Strife" by John Galsworthy...
...have engineered any strike of more than local magnitude. Crippled during the war by the Government which jailed so many of its leaders, sucked dry of effective propaganda by the return of business prosperity which vitiated their " industrial misery and slavery " pleas, and split wide open by internal strife, the I. W. W. has suffered a relapse that most experts on labor problems thought to be fatal. The Marine Workers' strike proves that the I. W. W. have relentless vitality of a kind. Like the serpents of mythology you can cut them into little pieces, but all the pieces...
...coal strikes that he is reluctant to take sides in industrial controversies. He expressly refused to associate himself with the earlier " open shop " propaganda which was successful in all but the strongest unions in 1920 and 1921, and denounced it as one of the most fruitful causes of industrial strife during the past twelve months. As a practical politician he doubtless realizes that an "open shop " campaign has little chance of success in a rising tabor market. When business conditions are bad and the surplus of workers is great, the unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open...
...Peking Government (with nothing but civil strife back of it) plaintively asks for the abrogation of the Treaty of 1915 containing the notorious "21 demands" which Japan, gun on hip, made her accept in 1915. Japan flatly refuses...