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...dangerous a plotter against law and order. Indeed, the fate, of the would-be Italian Lenine is possibly an indication that Bolshevism is on the wane in Italy: Given a full dinner-pall and the mishaps of the "Russian Deputy" to chuckle over, the Italian workman will perhaps prove safe for democracy. As for Misiano, he will doubtless soon be on his way once more to his Russian fatherland. The Red Gods grant him a safe journey...
...unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living wage has led the unions to extremes. There have been occasions, as Elbert Hubbard remarked, when the workman was forced either to "carry a union card to take out an accident policy." Modern methods are perhaps less atrocious, but none the less stringent...
...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...