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...Premier: (after rehearsing the background and the bill at length) : "... The Government's mandate for introducing this bill was tha General Strike. . . . Things have drifted too far. The activities of the trade unions are shifting from the industrial to the political sphere, in which some of them are controlled by the Communist party...
Meanwhile, Lawyer William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of tha Treasury under Wilson (1913-18), began not only to earn money but also to snatch for the mantle hia father-in-law had dropped. He missed it, rent the Democratic party. That other William, Bryan the Great Commoner, died in Dayton, Tenn., still denying his descent from long-tailed ancestors; with him vanished a sonorous power, which, for nearly 30 years had sometimes led and had always disturbed the Democratic party...
...Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been no organized protest, had seemed to indicate that Sunday...
...Read with attention an open letter from Premier Baldwin to a Conservative by-election candidate in which the Government's attitude toward Communism in industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention...
...affairs. In speeches, essays, and committee reports, his opinions have had currency among teacher and school officers and have by them been given great weight in the determination of school policies. His influence has been sought in other fields as well, but it is hardly too much to say tha this greatest service has been for the schools of America and that his best fame is due to his leadership in American education...