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Ships of American registry are compelled by law to operate under heavier costs than ships of other nations, since certain provisions concerning wages, quarters, and other conditions affecting the crew, designed to protect the rights of seamen, result in higher labor costs. A few of these regulations impose unnecessary restrictions; but on the whole our shipping laws are just, and their repeal would be unwise. Little or no reduction in labor charges may therefore be expected...
...writer opens herself to a palpable counter-thrust. If college men are not numbered among the labor agitators, the Non-Partisan Leaguers, and other active ultra-modernists, is it necessarily because they have failed to consider these new movements? Such a conclusion smugly assumes that the movements are necessarily right, and that a failure to champion them is due to sheer ignorance. It is not beyond imagination to suppose that the college student might think otherwise, and that he shuns them not so much from ignorance as form too much knowledge...
...increase of 21 per cent in shipments, showing that this extra shipping must have come from the manufacturers surplus. It is true that during the last few months there has been a marked increase in output, but it would be erroneous to interpret this is a readjustment in prices. Labor is a most important factor in the manufacturing market and wages are an almost inflexible element. In other words the retail price situation and present absorption of goods, seem to be such as to offer much resistance to radical reductions of modities...
...that has ever been known in the history of civilization because it can dispose not only of actual values, but it can also estimate potential and future values, and through it we can plan the future course of social developments. Capital is no longer the stored up energy of labor nor the accumulated savings of past labor, but it is in the main social credits, the faith of all the members of the community that their fellow-citizens will deliver the goods. Banks are no longer simply places to keep money, but are power houses for directing the economic...
Beginning with today, several prominent men will be the guests of the Student Liberal Club for the rest of this week, the Reverend Richard Hogue, Secretary of the Church League for Industrial Democracy, will speak this afternoon at 1.15 o'clock on "The Program of British Labor." Tomorrow Mr. Shaw Desmond, well-known in connection with Irish affairs in this country, will speak, probably in the afternoon. Mr. Norman Angell will be the guest of the club tomorrow and Thursday. Mr. Angell was formerly an English journalist and is the author of "The Great Illusion...