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...public has rights, to be sure, but a right involves a duty. I say that it is the public's duty not to allow men to be overworked under bad conditions, and underpaid, so that they cannot maintain decent living standards." Mr. Morrison pointed to the fact that even in periods of the most extreme unemployment, nothing has ever been done to alleviate the situation. He maintained that labor;s only recourse is in strengthening union organizations for more effective collective bargaining, and in political activity to secure remedial legislation...
...Mailman. A very small and energetic group of citizens are intent upon rousing the large and lethargic population to the rescue of its postal servants. Apparently mailmen are distressingly underpaid, overworked and ill provided for by pension. These points are all driven home in this film with the sounding mallet of melodrama. The purpose of the plan is obviously to provide campaign material for the emancipation of the mail slaves; by its banality it serves another cause equally well-the cause of those who detest the rank old-fashioned type of hiss and cur melodrama...
...present educational policy, none of the two million standees could be sent home. The land of the free offers learning to all. So the great seat shortage is only one aspect of a bad situation. There arise attendant evils of double sessions, night work, overcrowding, poor lights and air, underpaid instruction, inadequate equipment. Large classes slow up the work. The dullard drags upon the child of fair promise...
...point is this: Under the existing state of affairs teachers in both universities and schools are underpaid, especially by comparison with men and women of equal ability in other pursuits. And the institutions of learning are for the most part on the bare edge in regard to finances, despite their campaigns for funds. Most of them are overcrowded, so that the efforts of the teacher are spread over a great number of students. The result is naturally that education suffers materially in both classes of institutions alike...
...agreed to grant some relief. The present increase is scanty enough; but it is better than nothing. It is the first alteration in the scale of officers' pay for over fifteen years. Hitherto, a second lieutenant received only $1700 a year; and the higher grades have been almost equally underpaid. We must realize, moreover, that the officer is compelled to purchase, out of his own pocket, what the enlisted man receives free...