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...polices were reached and recorded. These decision meant the acceptance of certain broad but definite principles. The issues has been presented in such a way that the choice before the delegates was virtually one between Yes and No. In the study of the proposals there was of course some labor required, but it was not such as to consume much time, and of course it was hastened by the natural desire of every delegation not to seem to hesitate over an answer to a categorical question...
...greater part of the labor needed to formulate the issues had been done before the delegations had convened. For further decision, however, applying these accepted principle to details further study, including investigation by experts, was required and, after that, extended discussion. Facts regarded by one power as established naturally would not be accepted by another Power except upon verification and comparison with other facts. For example, the American method of computing displacement tonnage differs from the British method and the Japanese method. Questions were raised that could not be answered without reference to facts not obtainable in this country...
Professor T. N. Carver, Mr. Frank Tannenbaum, and Mr. R. F. Phelps '00, Director of Statistics, State Department of Labor and Industry were the speakers last evening at a seminar on "Unemployment" at the Student Liberal Club...
Declaring that he disagreed with Professor Carver so much that he didn't know where to begin, Mr. Tannenbaum, a young labor leader, attacked this line of argument. "If individual investment on the part of every business man", he said, "is the best way to solve the unemployment problem, why hasn't the situation been already relieved for that is the system we are living under? I doubt if present society as now constituted can solve the unemployment problem, for while there is a spiritual equality between rich and poor a wide economic inequality exists...
...Tannenbaum, a young labor leader, has made a close study of the unemployment problem. In 1914 he served a year on Blackwells Island for leading a mob of unemployed into a New York church. During the war he first worked in a shipyard and later served in the army, where he gained the rank of sergeant. After the war he entered Columbia University, from which he graduated recently with highest honors. He is the author of a book called "The Labor Movement...