Word: wages
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Socialism is to become the dominant idea of civilization, it will have to be supported by both intellect and force," maintained Mr. Powys. It belongs to the students to furnish the ideas in the revolution to reconcile the capitalists and the wage-earners...
Among the subjects to be discussed will be the minimum wage, banking reform, the rising cost of living and agricultural economics. Professor T. N. Carver, Professor A. B. Hart, and Colonel Roosevelt are included in the number of the prominent contributors to the programs of the societies. It is the aim of those in charge, however, to give less than usual time to reading and formal papers and more time to discussion. The meetings are of growing importance in both the academic and practical world...
Labor leaders take advantage of this to sow the seeds of class hatred, talking about the existence of an industrial monarchy in place of a political despotism. Then perhaps the foreigner strikes against his starvation wages, as he did in Lawrence where the average man's wage was $9 a week. Instead of tact and reason, clubs were used by the police in the Lawrence trouble and naturally this only intensified the feeling. The labor leaders tell their men that the troops, sent to protect "life, liberty and property," are protecting property alone; and the men, used to a centralized...
Some of the subjects suggested are: agricultural education; a lumber policy for the United States; what form of education should be advised for the elevation of wage-earners from a lower to a higher industrial status in the United States; the effect of the industrial awakening of Asia upon the economic development of the West...
...Prospect Union on Central Square at which the teachers are all students, graduates and instructors in the University is an educational and social club for men, managed by wage earners. Its object is to extend to working-men opportunities for elementary, technical, commercial, and higher education through evening classes and lectures, and to bring into mutually helpful contact working-men, students and teachers. It rests on a non-sectarian, non-partisan basis, being open to any man over seventeen years of age regardless of his nationality, creed, or station in life...