Word: workingmen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Next fall, during the first two weeks in October, the Prospect Union will conduct a campaign among the workingmen of Cambridge, Arlington, and Somerville with the purpose of telling these men just what the Union can do for them, and thus increasing its membership. During the past few years, a campaign of this sort has been made and has netted excellent results. For next fall it is planned to reach more men and to reach them more effectively. Arrangements will be made whereby men will be sent in the evenings to meetings of labor unions, social clubs, and church societies...
...call issued by the Prospect Union for men to carry out its plans for reaching the workingmen of Cambridge, for whose benefit the Union was founded, will commend itself to many undergraduates. During the past eighteen years, the Prospect Union has been doing a valuable service to the community by affording mutual and helpful contact between laborers of Cambridge and Harvard men. This has resulted not only in giving certain members of the University a better appreciation of life in that part of Cambridge of which they see but little and of building up through its members a positive influence...
...scientists and literary men of the younger school are socialists. Germany forty years ago, was poverty stricken and just emerging from the social conditions of the middle ages. Modern capitalizing was developing and there was much discontent among the laboring classes. As a remedy for these evils, the workingmen formed the socialist party. In England, successive royal commissions appointed by Parliament to investigate the grievances of the workmen, accomplished nothing. The working classes were driven to organize themselves politically in order to protect their rights. In Italy corruption was the cause of the socialist movement. Here the new party...
...Prospect Union is an institution conducted entirely by Harvard men. It aims to bring together student and workingman on a basis of mutual helpfulness. All the workingmen of Cambridge and suburbs are invited to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. The membership fee is $2, and this entitles men to the free use of the library, game room and shower baths, and gives free admission to all classes, lectures, and smoke talks...
...evolution, and the growth of socialism, during the past century are ripe indications of the possibility of this democratic religion. Of these, ethics has given us a glimpse of the worship of humanity, evolution of the fellowship of humanity, and socialism of the organization of humanity. Through the international workingmen's unions, also, we begin to see, through socialism, the realization of some part of our conception of a universal society. All these great needs must be welded together into one great functionary unit of society, guided by the old motto of the monks, "Laborare est orare...