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News comes from Washington that a coalition of farmer organizations and labor unions called the "People's Reconstruction League" is making plans to obtain the passage of legislation in Congress to accomplish the prompt restoration of the railroads to unified government operation; control of the meat packing industry by legislation; retention of the excess profits, estate and income tax on land holdings; short time rural credit system for farmers effected through a system of co-operative banks aided by the federal government; public ownership and development of all natural resources; and the defeat of compulsory military training...
According to the literature published by the league, which modestly dscribes itself as "a non-partisan union of farmers and labor organizations and other progressive forces", this "program of economic justice will save the people on the farms, in the factories, mines, offices, trades, and transportation $6,000,000,000 a year." All this sounds very promising, but inspection of the program clearly shows an attack on private enterprise. As it has been stated: "This league's legislative drive aims at nothing short of camouflaged communism." Here is an example of the sort of radical propaganda that is going...
Lewis F. Post, who as Assistant Secretary of Labor won national reputation last year by his refusal to deport radical aliens, will speak in the Trophy Room of the Union at 8 o'clock on Wednesday, March 23. He will take as his subject, "An Inside View of the Deportations", sketching the history of the Deportations and allied events during the year of 1920. Mr. Post is speaking under the joint auspices of the Student Liberal Club and the Union and will be introduced by James Ford '05, Assistant Professor of Social Ethics and noted student of sociology in this...
...York City which centered around the candidacy of Henry George, the famous reformer, for Mayor of New York; during the nineties he became interested in the Single Tax movement and founded. "The Public", a Single Tax weekly, which he edited until 1913, when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor by President Wilson...
...meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society in Pierce Hall, 110, at 8 o'clock this evening, Mr. W. L. Stoddard will speak on "Labor Relations". After the talk there will be a general discussion. All members of the University who are interested are invited to attend. Refreshments will be served...