Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...first sight this seems to be only an other of labors propositions to be scorned by employers as entirely impracticable. It has, however, one saving grace perhaps two: the workers do not propose to seize private property by force; and they propose to take over plants now idle, not those making profits. In other words there is the recognition that capital and labor are partner. Labor simply asks to be allowed to demonstrate that, if its partner falls, the partnership can be dissolved without loss to itself. If it succeeds in proving the truth of the assertion, the employer will...
...first step is an agreement on a constitution providing usually for a board of arbitration. Executive control is left in the hands of the employer but subject to the limitations of the agreement and the decrees of the board. The representatives of the employees usually labor union officials, strive through the board to extent these limitations to in hibit all acts of the employer which the employees or their officials conceive to be of any disadvantage to themselves. The system resembles a constitutional monarchy...
...successful they can then be tried elsewhere, and the nine years' success of this experiment now becomes a challenge to forward looking workers and employers who want to take the first step in the journey to industrial peace...
Sunday services in the University are not omitted in recesses, and Appleton Chapel is kept open continuously for Sunday worship from the first Sunday of the College year until Baccalaureate Sunday inclusive...
...impossible to make arrangements for a concert in Louisville, Kentucky, the club will go direct from St. Louis to Pittsburg where it will sing in Canegie Hall on December 31. The Harvard Club of Pittsburg has invited the men to dinner at the University Club on the thirty-first...