Word: workman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name. Therefore meddling is farthest from the intention of the School. If a student has reason to think that any question might be considered annoying to his superiors, he is always asked to discard such a question. Every man from the School is expected to be a 100 percent workman while on the job, and of course any connection with the College is not permitted to interfere with this purpose...
...robber traction barons." His platform smacks rather of Lenine than of an American statesman. At a time when the utmost should be done to conciliate capital and labor, he is making Immoderate and uncalled for attacks on established business organizations, and is fostering the discontent of the "downtrodden" workman, perverting it to his own advantage. While emptying the city treasury to pay his henchmen as $100 a day "experts" (the city is literally "broke" as a result), he blames the vacant coffers on the "rich tax-dodgers...
...city, between province and province and between North and South. There must also be discipline. The strike order, when given, must be obeyed; and reports from China indicate that the "walkout", was a fairly general one, the great majority of students having laid down their books as a workman might his tools as a protest against the Pekin Government...