Word: workers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working as an unskilled laborer under an assumed name in three steel mills, two coal mines, two shipyards, an oil refinery, and a railway roundhouse. During this period he kept an interesting diary which has since been published by Scribner's under the title of "What is on the Worker's Mind," and has gone into the second edition. In the summer of 1920, Mr. Williams spent three months working in the coal mines of New South Wales and trying to get jobs as a man out of work in the steel slants, docks, and shipyards of England, Scotland...
...should like to say a few words about the worker's attitude. You prate about greater production for more wages. The worker has heard that old gag until it wearies him. Let me give an instance. In a certain corporation the piece work system is used. The prices are so not that the worker has to turn out a larger quantity of work to make a fair wage. This corporation is always clamoring for greater production. If a worker does turn out more than his average production his prices are cut so that he must maintain the greater production...
...these editorials I have found the same theme. Labor is unjust, unreasonable, ignorant. I have worked for a year and a half as a factory hand. I belong to the working class. I know that a weary, body-deforming, mind-stupefying, soul-killing grind the worker's life is. I believe I understand the worker's view. Be says, "Give me a square deal and I shall give you a square deal." When capital gives the square deal the day of labor troubles is over. Until that square deal is given the labor question will always be before us. FRANCES...
Harry W. Laidler Ph.D., Columbia, who will expound socialism tonight, is an expert on labor and social problems, and the author of "Socialism is Thought and Action," and other treatises on modern subjects. He is at present the Secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society and an active worker in the Socialist Party...
Such a condition should be met by directing our efforts towards improving living conditions, towards making the condition such that the workers will not be tempted by radicalism. The worker's interest in his occupation should be stimulated. To successfully meet the labor problem, we must take account of the working man's philosophy and ideals; we must consider the rights of others and their point of view. We must not regard laborers as being a different class of people who must trust in the sagacity of their employers. The policy of paternalism is resented by the employees We must...