Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Governor Calvin Coolidge yesterday issued a statement addressed to the University undergraduates thanking them for their services during the recent police strike, and urging them to support the officers of the state in their efforts to enforce law and order now and in the future. The complete text of the statement, given out at the State Capitol, follows...
From Buenos Ayres come the tidings that the University Federation of that city, a student organization, has threatened to call a country-wide strike of students if there is no Federal intervention between the Teachers' Union and the director-general of schools. This appears to be the utmost refinement of the sympathetic strike, more mention of which a new years ago would have set the world to laughing. Nowadays, however, causes little comment, because seemingly fifty per cent. of the population of the globe is either on strike or about...
Inward qualms arise if one even thinks of Harvard students of strike: the statue of John Harvard plastered with Freshman Dormitory boiled eggs, bombs hurled into the Recorder's office, parlor Bolshevists opening the windows of Boylston Laboratory to flood the city of Cambridge with the poisonous gases now inhaled exclusively by students taking them. A. The prospects is an awful one to contemplate. It is to be hoped that walking delegates from the Argentine never penetrate as far as Cambridge...
Please let me ask Mr. Laski one question. He draws a comparison between the police of Boston, who are on strike, and soldiers in the army. Would he advise, or rather, justify, the striking of soldiers who were dissatisfied with pay or conditions...
...issue of the Boston police strike is more than a local one. Law and order, represented by officials of the state and city, have decided that the police were at fault in leaving their posts. Whether Mr. Curtis failed in having the vacant posts guarded by reserves or guardsmen is not the issue. The posts should never have been left vacant...