Word: unrest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present juncture the most important concern of Congress should be settling the social unrest that is undermining our national existence. What the people want from Washington is peace, prosperity and production. What they are getting is pork, politics and piffile...
...talking of social unrest the President hits the nail on the head when he says that it is caused by the continued state of war; by the fact that peace is still in abeyance. Nothing that the President has said is truer than that the causes of the present turmoil "are superficial rather than deep-seated," and that the ratification of the Treaty will remove many of those causes...
...Union during the coming year will be impersonal scientific studies into local civic problems. These surveys will be taken up as part of the work in classes in economics and social problems, and it is expected will result in dispassionate analysis of the root causes of present industrial unrest...
Every day brings with it a deeper unrest, a growing antagonism between capitalists and laborers, between radicals and conservatives. Neither side is willing to meet the other; the radical leader is afraid to discuss the situation with the conservative because he thinks it impairs the confidence placed in him by his constituents, the conservative avoids intercourse with the radical because he has decided against radical ideas per se or because his reputation may suffer. He is likely to be called a Bolshevik sympathizer, and with that, all his opportunity for constructive criticism ceases. And the two factions drift...
...When the theorists mix in, they usually make a mess of it." This sentence is drawn from a booklet on "College-Made Utopias and Labor Unrest," which Dorr A. Felt, president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, has been impelled to write...