Word: workingman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of the play lets, "Every Man's Bit," was written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe, a student in Professor G. P. Baker's course on the technique of the drama. The characters in the cast are as follows: Mrs. Brittain, Lillian Hartigan Fanny, Vianna Knowlton, 1918 Workingman, Stoddard Colby '21 Little Girl, Marguerite Barr...
...Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the United States, will talk of education in his native country, and Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield will discuss industrial education. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will speak on the relation of the American school to the workingman...
...trades unions do not necessarily obtain their demands in full, nearly always they are granted some concessions. According to the New York Herald, "A force has been unleashed which will be difficult to control. The trend is unmistakably in the direction of submission by all invested capital to the workingman or to an industrial upheaval many times more extensive and disastrous than the great railroad and other strikes...
...labor grow into power, and who have always dealt with it as a menace or unwarranted interference with their liberties. Undergraduates are not rare who consider the labor problem very simple: labor simply has to be fought. This is not the general attitude; but a sympathetic insight into the workingman's point of view is not too common. It requires a detailed study which no prospective business man should fail to make...
...problems which face society, the impoverishment of the masses, the concentration of great financial power in the hands of a few capitalists, and the constant increase in the cost of living and in the terrors of the slums. Under the present system of society, the physical power of the workingman is being constantly undermined and will be found woefully lacking when war faces the country. Great Britain has had experience which has proved that capital is destroying the power of the nation, and we are facing a great crisis which may teach us the same thing, unless we profit...