Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Smolev '15 won the Pasteur Debating Medal in the fourteenth annual contest held in Fogg Lecture Room last evening. Nine contestants spoke on various phases of the subject "Resolved, That a Strike by Postal or Railroad Workers in the Service of the French Republic should be deemed a Criminal Offense...
...Smolev '15, the winner of the Pasteur Medal, showed how labor conditions in France are especially peculiar. The mass of government employees can not be held responsible for the serious strikes of the last decade, but rather a small body of men who openly declare their revolutionary sentiments and who are in a position to force a strike. Of course the ideal way to deal with the strike problem would be to get rid of these revolutionary instigators. But under the present condition of affairs such a plan would be impossible. There is, then, but one way to meet...
...practical standpoint. Government employees acting in postal or railroad positions are identical with employees of private corporations, and as such ought to have the right to seek an amelioration of their condition. Past history has shown that parliamentary action is useless. Hence the only satisfactory method is by open strike...
...Greenman '14 emphasized the fact that in a general strike France faced two alternatives--monarchism or syndicalism, either of which would mean a change of government. Such a possibility is too serious to be overlooked; the only way to avoid it, then, is to do as New Zealand has done: consider strikes by government employees criminal acts...
...Donovan '13 showed that a strike was an offense against the government itself and not, as has often been maintained, against business interests. The government must have some method of protecting its property and consequently considers a strike against itself a crime...