Word: striking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the Council's strike call, "The strike (and walkout) is in no way directed against the University, but is rather a militant and orderly expression of the determination of students to oppose all plans which would lead us into another world slaughter." The Cambridge meeting is being followed by a second anti-war gathering of all greater Boston colleges on the Common at 12 o'clock...
After Schumann's address, A. Jerome Himelhoch '38 will announce the five-fold purpose of the strike: to demand the demilitarization of colleges, to oppose the war budget, to recognize the Oxford pledge, to defend civil liberties, and to resolve to keep America out of war. Himelhoch will stress the importance of supporting the Nye-Kvale amendment to eliminate compulsory military training...
...reports of the proposed Peace Strike, a regrettable confusion has appeared between the news and the editorial columns of the "Crimson." In a recent news story, you saw fit to describe the Peace Strike as a phenomenon of the restlessness of spring. And yesterday's editorial, "Peace Strike--Or Agitation," contained not only your legitimate if prejudiced opinion, but seriously inaccurate news-reporting, the only news-reporting of this event in the issue...
...Lecture Hall to be addressed by Professor Schumann and Dean Hanford; this is the eleven o'clock meeting, under purely Harvard auspices. Again, Professor Robert Morss Lovett is not even primarily a "pro-labor sympathizer," as you describe him, in your attempt to make the greater Boston Peace Strike look like a mass labor meeting for the C. I. O. A Professor of English at the University of Chicago, co-author of a widely used history of English literature, a "sympathizer" with many liberal causes. Professor Lovett is better qualified to speak "authoritatively" on peace than you assume...
Aside from these facts, one may object to a peace meeting being addressed by Powers Hapgood, though the causes of peace and of labor are surely not wholly separate, and Mr. Hapgood is a well-known liberal as well as labor sympathizer. The many backers of the Peace Strike indicate that it will not place "undue emphasis . . . upon the problems that confront labor." It is bad taste to speak of a professor from another great university as "haranguing" an audience, before the fact; it is simply misrepresentation to describe Professor Lovett as you have, and to omit all reference...