Word: workingman
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...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...
...Association, which exercises a general supervision of the educational work. The conduct of each class is left largely to the initiative of the individual teacher. No previous experience is necessary; on the contrary, the Prospect Union offers an exceptional opportunity for the student, through the contact with the earnest workingman, to get a training that will be valuable in any profession...
Permit me through your columns to call the attention of students in all the departments of the University to an opportunity for social service in Cambridge. During the next few days the Prospect Union aims to put before every workingman in Cambridge the opportunities for education that Harvard is providing for him through the Union. For this work a large number of men, are needed at once as speakers, advisers teachers, etc. There will be almost 200 meetings of labor unions, clubs, lodges, factory groups, etc., within the next month to which volunteers will be assigned to describe the work...