Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pursuance of the recommendation of the Committee on Undergraduate Publications, it was voted to strike out the by-law passed on March 13, 1912, reading "that all undergraduate publications, within four weeks after the beginning of College, unite to hold a common smoker for Freshmen at which a representative of each paper shall be invited to speak. This common smoker is in no way to interfere with the individual smokers that the different publications may desire to give." The committee was of the opinion that such a smoker is impracticable, owing to the individual smokers held by the papers...
...United States the movement originated in the Colorado miners' strike of 1903, when several of the other unallied crafts were induced to strike with the miners...
...Utopian dream of the I. W. W. movement is a universal strike, in which race lines and nations cease to be factors of importance. The realization of this ideal entails two assumptions: first, that the world's labor can be made to act together with sufficient concentration to obtain control of the centers of economic power; and second, that with the overthrow of capitalism syndicalism would be capable of stepping in and taking charge of affairs. The tendency of syndicalism to overemphasize the lateral interests of labor: that is, the interests of the crafts as a whole, and to slight...
...addition to the Associated societies and Bible classes which have met either weekly or fortnightly, with average attendance of 39 members, several other entertainments and lectures have been given. Among these was an interesting talk on the "Lawrence Strike" by Mr. F. J. Bagoclus. The University Christian Association held a "frolic" at the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. on October 24, and on Thanksgiving Day an extremely successful celebration, the first of its kind to have been undertaken, was held for all men remaining in Cambridge over the holiday...
...Bagocius in his speech on "The Lawrence Strike and the Foreigner," given last evening explained how the foreigner comes to America from the ignorance and degrading poverty of his own country, with the undeveloped mind of a child and almost in the condition of a barbarian. Deep hatred for all other races, and utter contempt for government has been instilled into him, while America has been painted as a Utopia of absolute equality. Instead of that he finds his condition, though better than at home, far below that of those about him, and cannot understand it in a land...