Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a leader in this evolution toward unionism for employers succeeded in doing for San Francisco business what Labor has never been able to do for itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
...Oswald Pirow, lion hunter and air pilot as well as Minister of Defense for the Union of South Africa, returned to London after making the rounds of authoritarian headquarters (Lisbon, Salamanca. Berlin, Rome). Encouraged by the British Government to sound out Adolf Hitler on just how much colonial "appeasement" would satisfy him and to ask other powers how much of their colonies they would hand over, Mr. Pirow's trip turned out to be a flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything...
...seems to me especially significant at this time that the Harvard Student Union last night elected as President John Stillman '40, a student who is a representative of as wide a diversity of campus interests as the Lampoon, the crew and hockey team...
Only when Stillman's promise to make the Harvard Student Union represent the whole campus has been fulfilled will we know that the great majority of Harvard students are interested enough in the preservation and extension of American democracy to take political action to that end. Leo Marx...
While agreeing that this was the immediate issue for the cooperative, one of the sponsoring organizations, the Student Union, declared, through its president and president-elect, Robert E. Lane '39, and John S. Still man '40, that it would "take steps to investigate the sources of the unfortunate relations between the colleges...