Word: workers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...constructive lesson. The real question of how a workingman can improve his conditions of labor has yet to be answered. At the present time the strike is the only means available. Public opinion is against the strike. So is labor; a strike is as hard on the worker as it is on anybody else. But a Labor Administration would be beer and skittles for everyone except capital and the public. It is not hard to see who would be on the top of the heap with such a regime...
...educating the educated, or rather the miseducated. Why not make it a condition to holding the degree of S. D. (doctor of sociology) that the candidate have clinical experience as an employer and as a member of some labor union-not as make-believe nor as a settlement worker, but as charged with the responsibility of making a business undertaking carry itself or of accommodating life to strict labor union rules? NEW YORK TRIBUNE
Apart from all economic considerations the effects of national prohibition on the temper of the laboring classes will be most alarming. Whether it has been scientifically proven that hard work needs a stimulant or not makes no difference to the worker. He believes he needs that stimulant and resents bitterly interference with what he considers his personal liberty. Foreign agitators can seize this opportunity of pointing out that the government of the United States is as despotic as any in Europe and that the only means of salvation for working men is to do away with all government...
...made a the thorough, wise and farsighted choice. Theirs will be an invaluable opportunity to experience for a study their ideas of social reform, and ultimately to aid intelligently in the present world-wide search for a more satisfactory combination of the conditions which govern the life of the worker, and a more stable and balanced tendency in the development of the social order. When the summer is over, they will have learned something in the coal mines, factories, mills, stock-yards, or packing-houses, which will enable them to do their full share toward the ultimate removal...
...always been one of President Eliot's beliefs. For this reason, he introduced the free elective system to allow every student to choose the subjects for which he felt a natural inclination. He realized that no work could be done happily and well which did not really interest the worker...