Word: union
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...five-day week, a six-hour day and a sixty percent increase in wages; these are the demands of the United Mine Workers of America. Unless they are satisfied in full, a strike is to be called on all the union bituminous fields in the nation. The result of such action can best be summed up in the words of president Wilson: "All interests would be affected alike by a strike of this character, and its victims would be not the rich only, but the poor and needy as well, those least able to provide in advance a fuel supply...
...Reverend George Alexander Johnston Ross, D. D., Professor of Homeiletics at Union Theological Seminary, New York, will conduct morning prayers this morning and every morning this week at 8.45 o'clock. The services will close promptly at 9 o'clock to allow students to reach their classes at that hour...
...Reverend George Alexander Johnston Ross, D. D., Professor of Homiletics at Union Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y., will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Officers of the University should enter at the north door of the chapel and students at the south door, unless accompanied by friends, when they should use the west door. All seats in the gallery are open to the public...
...capital and public groups at the Labor Conference appear to be cutting their own throats. In standing against the so-called rights of recognition and unionization they are losing sight of the one great issue--the right of open shops. This right capital must uphold. To give in here means suicide not only for capital, but for the nation. If employees can force their employer to discharge anyone because he does not belong to their union they are violating the spirit of the Constitution. There is no telling to what extremes such boycotts could be carried. But instead of concentrating...
...name "union" has come into bad repute by the exorbitant demands of many strikes. But capital in the long run, cannot prevent the formation of unions. Why not concede the fact now and try to promote a spirit of unity between capital, labor, and the public? But capital by its uncompromising attitude is playing into the hands of labor. The latter claim they are forced to threaten with the closed shop. And what is more, labor has at present the public on its side. Capital, to win the people back, must in the very near future make a change...