Word: trade-union
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...steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program was too radical to be practical. He became an organizer for the American Federation of Labor, unionizing railroaders, stockyard workers, steel hands. His program for Labor included education of trade-union members to make them fit for political action. He turned Communist about five years...
Meantime, a meeting of trade-union executives was held in London. Two important decisions were made...
...trade-union," Mr. Green declared, "is about to come into its own. Where the right of the workers to organize is conceded and collective bargaining is practiced, the possibility of strikes is minimized, but where the exercise of this right is denied and the workers are not permitted to act collectively through their chosen representatives, a spirit of revolt manifests itself and the resort to strikes becomes increasingly probable. Capital realizes this and becomes increasingly willing to withdraw its opposition to the rights of labor. Trade-unions are pioneers in demanding free education and the abolition of child-labor...
...Woll is one of the powers in American Labor. His committee of trade-union men pleaded that all prayer-books, religious literature and articles used in churches should bear a label signifying that it had been produced by American union labor...
...first inter-club debate between the Agora and the Forum will be held this evening at 7.30 in the debating rooms in Dane Hall. The Forum team, which will support the affirmative of the question: "Resolved, That the trade-union principle of the closed shops should be maintained," is composed of the following men, whose names are given in the order in which they will deliver their first speeches: P. B. Carter '08, R. E. Hoguet '08, and A. E. Pinanski '08. The order of rebuttal will be Hoguet, Pinanski, Carter. The Agora team, which will defend the negative...