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...benefit from rate increases was modified adversely by the refusal of some of the states to accept the rate scales prescribed by the Federal Commission. This controversy is now before the Supreme Court. In the third place, the effect of the wage increases granted in 1920 by the Railroad Labor Board and the effect of the working rules of the national agreements entered into by the Director General in the last few months of Federal control, were underestimated. In short, the additional revenues were overestimated and the additional expenses were underestimated. Of the two, the falling off in revenues...
...present strike involving something like eighty percent of the book and job printing of the city of Boston, and affecting Cambridge establishments as well marks another protest on the part of organized labor against the reduction of prices. The unions resent what one official has termed an attempt at "arbitrarily taking money out of the workers' envelops and giving it to the printing-consuming public." It is clear that this strike is merely an instance of the time-honored demand for less work and more wages; but it holds peculiar significance for the college...
...inclination toward book-collecting; even for the most essential textbooks he often relies upon friend or college library. Under the ever-increasing demand of workmen for more wages, prices have steadily risen until a volume of even the most modest description is not infrequently quoted at three dollars. The labor union is slowly teaching the college student to appreciate the value of books. But the lesson is expensive...
...exorbitant cost of production is eventually passed on to the purchase, and the price of books soars steadily upward. When publishers are forced to curtail the printing of textbooks because they can not sell enough to make one edition profitable, college students may well take alarm at modern labor conditions...
...still under the control of a most radical government, and that this government was strengthened by the continued patriotism and idealism of the people. "But there is one kind of organization," he said, "that Lenine does not control, and over which his influence does not extend. This is the labor union, and, strange to say, labor unions may be the final means of making Lenine give up the principles of Bolshevism and work along sane lines...