Word: striking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this there would have been no point in striking. They thought they could terrorize the public into submission, but they failed...
That every man has a right to affiliate himself with any organization or union to better his own economic condition is the view of Mr. H. J. Laski, University Lecturer in History and Government, Contrary to the usually accepted opinion, he would lay the blame for the police strike not on the policemen, but on the commissioner, who, according to Mr. Laski, was in large measure responsible for it. He asserts that the commissioner, knew that the men were forming a union, and later knew that they were going to strike, but that he failed to take such action...
...main thing to be done is to use the recognized means of conciliation to effect a compromise that will at least partially satisfy both sides. The strike has developed so that at present the issue is largely one of prestige, and the original issues have been forgotten...
Colonel James G. White commanding the Newton Constabulary, was much pleased with the spirit shown by the University throughout the strike, and in a letter to the CRIMSON, sent this message: "I wish to express to you the obligation I feel for the services which you have rendered in endeavoring to secure recruits for this commannd. Please accept my most cordial thanks...
Nearly every undesirable situation has its brighter aspects, and the Boston police strike has been no exception to this rule. If it has accomplished nothing else, it has brought to light men like Governor Coolidge. Throughout the whole unpleasant affair he has shown himself worthy of the greatest respect. His initiative, courage, and foresight saved his capitol, and possibly his state, from anarchy. The nation needs more public men who maintain in dealing with police strikers, that "there is no middle ground...