Word: works
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...another way the limitations upon luxuries must be tempered by a consideration of possible effects upon our industrial organization. To prohibit suddenly the manufacture of certain articles would be to throw numbers of men out of work, to render families dependent, and to demoralize the whole nation. The process must be a gradual one which will recognize that society cannot be reorganized...
Throughout the week there will be on exhibition at the Cambridge Trust Company a collection of Red Cross posters. These posters, a special exhibition in connection with the Cambridge campaign, depict the various phases of relief activity and the necessity for assistance in continuing this all-important work...
...Behind all this grim purpose of winning the war, my friends, lies the opportunity to demonstrate not only force, which will be demonstrated to the utmost, but the opportunity to demonstrate character, and it is that opportunity that we have most conspicuously in the work of the Red Cross. Not that our men in arms do not represent our character, for they do, and it is a character which those who see and realize appreciate and admire; but their duty is the duty of force. The duty of the Red Cross is the duty of mercy and succor and friendship...
Data concerning many positions open for summer work in various plants engaged in war work under contract with the Government, has been collected by the University Employment Bureau. It is the intention of this office to assist all members of the University who are unfit for military service this year in obtaining work at one of these plants, and thus aid in solving the war labor problem...
Several of the plants, upon taking new and untrained men into their employ, are offering these beginners an opportunity to learn a job first and then start working at it. The Remington Arms, Union Metallic Cartridge Company, for example, has established a training school for new men, where the latter are taught a trade, and after they have completed a thorough course at this school they go to work at the machines...