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...further reduction of the standing army to 115,000 men and 11,000 officers,--this in the name of "necessary economizing". Under the plan now in operation the army is already being reduced to 150,000 men and 13,000 officers, and that makes its necessary to spread the effectives pretty thin to cover the various posts. Coast defense units are everywhere being pared to the quick, and even at that all but the more important fortifications are being abandoned. Our contingent in Germany is being withdrawn. In the Philippines, in Hawaii, at Panama, barely enough men are maintained...
...course. Mr. Nearing, previous to the interruption, had alleged that colleges are controlled by bugaboo of radicals, "vested interests", which hampers free speech. Toward the close of the lecture President Atwood entered the hall and shortly announced that the meeting was dismissed. When his announcement had no effect he had the lights turned out, thereby abruptly ending the lecture. Students and professors alike have strongly objected to the move...
...strike in South Africa you say, in the editorial, "To Break a Strike", in this morning's issue of the CRIMSON, "The strike is unique in that for the first time airplanes have been used to quell the disturbance. Bombs have been dropped on commandos of strikers to excellent effect . . . This appears to be one of the best strike breaking methods yet devised, for by it, always providing it is used rightly, only the iniquitous are injured. The planes are available only to the government, so that they can not be used by the insurgents. Heretofore, the only...
...workers in the Pittsburg steel mills It is similar, in a general way, to "Strife" and the "Mob", by John Galsworthy. The subject and main theme of the piece is the social conditions in the Pittsburg steel mills, coupled with the outlook on life of the workers there. The effect of the mills and the industry upon the minds of these people forms an important part of the atmosphere...
...perceiving the drift of events, set about making attempts to improve the situation. This they did by outting down many of the privileges of the white laborers in the mines, who heretofore had enjoyed certain liberties and immunities over their black fellow-workers. The former immediately expostulated, but without effect, and the struggle broke out. The white miners, however, were largely influenced by radical and labor union agitators, and it was largely owing to the efforts of these men that the troubles have reached their present height...