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Through the generosity of Mr. Richard Sears '91, two prizes have been offered in the Division of History, Government, and Economics. Men wishing to compete must write an essay on the following subject: "Are trade unions a benefit or detriment at the present time to labor...
...widespread practice among industrial organizations today to employ spies to "cultivate" the officers of labor unions, to try to obtain important offices in unions, and, when a strike threatens, to split the unions into factions and otherwise incapacitate them for action. Aside from the ethics of the matter Dr. Cabot showed that people were coming to realize that such espionage is poor business policy, since it is almost certain to be found out, and to cause bitterness and hatred...
...According to the Klan's pamphlet "it is not necessary to name these groups as every man has felt pressure from them all". You think that of course the Klan is referring to the Republican, the Democratic and the Prohibition parties. Oh no! Then possibly it means capital and labor, with the middle class as the imminent danger. But no: closely as these groups answer the description the Ku Klux Klan overlooks them and creeps covertly up behind three great windmills: a Jewish organization (discovered by the Klan) which is supposed to control the wholesale business of the United States...
...wanted who are willing to work hard, and who have the necessary physique to accomplish the needed labor most efficiently. It is the cooperation and mutual service that has given the mission its widespread popularity...
...which the advantage to foreign nations of lower labor costs may be offset, is a reduction of the insurance rate below that which obtains in other countries. A huge combination of private companies might conceivably be able to insure at lower rates, and still make a profit; but an easier method of securing inexpensive insurance would be to have the government provide it at cost, a thing which our experience with war-time life insurance for the army and navy shows quite feasible...