Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Christians to take a personal pledge to boycott German goods, boats and territory are being rounded up by a committee suggested by Christopher T. Emmet Jr. of Stony Brook, L. I., headed by Dr. William Jay Schieffelin of Manhattan's Citizens' Union, assisted by Presidents Henry Noble MacCracken of Vassar College and Frank P. Graham of University of North Carolina, President Oliver La Farge of the American Association on Indian Affairs, Editor Guy Emery Shipler of the Churchman...
James S. Lanigan '39, chairman of the Student Union's Practical Politics committee, spoke last night along with Joseph Lee, Boston School Committee man before 300 Roxbury school children and their parents in Otis Hall, Roxbury, in an effort to dispel the reputation for "radicalism" which the Union's activity there has aroused...
Lanigan denied that the Student Union was in any way a Communist organization, emphasizing its democratic nature. He stated the objectives of the Union and cited the support which the University gives to its activity here. Two Boston College students heckled the speakers at the open meeting demanding to know the origins of the Union, declaring they felt it was their "moral duty" to know...
Lannigan answered questions from the audience, many of which concerned the Union's alleged Communism...
...ballots, ignoring the knotty problems raised every year by the impossibility of a really democratic election in a class which is new to the college and unacquainted with itself. It has been repeatedly pointed out in these columns that the Freshman elections are essentially a farce; that the Union Committee, in spite of its un-democratic nature, is the logical and most efficient body for the administration of Freshman activities; and that the elections should therefore be discarded. In ignoring this problem, the Council made a particularly serious mistake, for the leaders which emerge in the Freshman year regularly remain...