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...back to your college professors and your students of labor and tell them that their participation as critics or as students of labor will be tolerated, but as organizers or leaders, no!", said Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, when interviewed for the CRIMSON yesterday. This statement came as the result of a question put to him as to the effect of men from intercollegiate societies, such as the various college Liberal Clubs, on the future welfare of labor. "What do you mean?" said Mr. Gompers. "You are not saying what is exactly in your mind...
Announcement of the arrangements for the annual debate between Yale, Princeton, and the University next Friday on the question of the open shop, was made yesterday. At Cambridge the University will defend the negative of the question "Resolved, that the Employers of Labor should give up their principle of the Open Shop," meeting the affirmative team from Yale at 8P. M. in Sanders Theatre. There will be three speakers from each side. Tickets may be obtained for $.50 apiece at Leavitt and Peirce's or at Amee...
Declaring that he would "discard either and all of the titles" on which he had been announced to speak, and would "just talk," Samuel Gompers, speaking at the Union last light, reviewed not the "Case for the Closed Shop" nor any specific labor question, but the whole subject of the rights and aspirations of labor...
...Gompers, who with the exception of one year has been president of the American Federation of Labor since 1882, has been associated with the cause of labor since his fifteenth year. He was born in England in 1850, but came to America when still young and began work as a cigarmaker, which has been his official trade ever since. Mr. Gompers was one of the founders of the Federation of Labor and has been editor of its magazine; in addition he has written a number of pamphlets and articles on labor subjects, and one book. "Labor in Europe and America...
...advocated labor's adh whichever one of the two old were the most liberal. Lately Mr. Gompers has been taking a very determined against the open shop campaign...