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History matters in Britain's present attitudes toward work. "Workingmen," says London School of Economics Professor Richard Titmuss, "carry with them a folk memory." The memory is of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six Dorsetshire farm laborers who in 1834 were transported to the penal colony at Australia's Botany Bay for attempting to form a trade union. The memory includes the General Strike of 1926, the massive unemployment of the Great Depression, the perennial pain of class distinctions, the furious battles to gain labor's rights. It has left British labor with what Labor Journalist John Cole calls...
...after a reading of Herbert Spencer shattered the Methodist faith he was born to. He taught for seven years at Yale before beginning a 29-year tenure on the Harvard faculty, retiring in 1943. He liked to moonlight from university teaching by lecturing at labor-union schools, because "workingmen don't pull their punches...
Moonlighting with Workingmen. A student of William James and Josiah Royce, Hocking was the last of the great American Idealists. He was a thinker who persistently denied that philosophy was simply an armchair pur suit. "If the teachings of a philosopher seem esoteric or divorced from reality," he once said, "it's the fault of the phi losopher." Hocking himself vigorously applied his vision to the realm of pub lic debate. He championed the Arab cause against Israel and criticized the cold-war policy of John Foster Dulles as being too negative. He was unafraid to prophesy: he once...
After a decade of mere talk about autonomy from West Pakistan, political leaders of East Pakistan took matters into their own hands last week and, in a violent 24-hour strike by thousands of workingmen, underlined their demands for freedom from President Mohammed Ayub Khan's western seat of power. The Easterners have a point. The two sections of the country, separated by nearly 1,000 miles of Indian territory, share neither borders nor cultures. West Pakistan is Middle Eastern, hot and dry in climate, puritanical in morals, warlike in manners, and multilingual. East Pakistan smacks of the Orient...
...spending too. "The Federal Government is doing it," he said. "I have asked the Governors to do it. I have asked the businessmen, the private managers, to do it, and I am asking the mayors to do it." Very shortly, he added, he would ask "the leaders of the workingmen of this country"-most notably A.F.I.-C.I.O. President George Meany-to do it. And he wanted the ladies to get in on the act. "I just wonder," said the President, "if the women of this country couldn't get out their lead pencils and put on their glasses...