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Besides these speakers, C. H. Wheldon '22, P. R. Harmel '23 and B. F. Jones will also make short speeches. The question used for practice will be that of the debate, "Resolved, that the Employers of Labor Should Give Up Their Principle of the Open Shop." The team has been fortunate enough to engage the services of Frank Stern '11 as coach of the team, and it is probable that he will attend this informal session to begin the work of training the men for the Intercollegiate Meet...
...most hopeful of the return toward pre-war "normalcy" is the collapse of the long-threatened British general strike. Organized labor, headed curiously enough by the miners, has now definitely repudiated the idea, to the great relief of the harrassed public. The reason seems to be not so much dissension in the ranks of Labor as a growing conviction that the ballot is after all the best means of gaining desired ends. The English mind is by nature and inheritance inclined to the use of constitutional means; English Parliamentary methods are well adapted for expressing the will of the people...
Consequently the rank and file of Labor, as well as the more sane of the leaders, have refused to be stampeded into the radical, "cooperative ownership" group which is associated with the international labor movement. They are willing to work peacefully. The problem of Capital and Labor may be a very long time in the settling; but at least such sobriety and good sense is excellent omen for the future...
During the war, when there was a world shortage of shipping a huge American merchant fleet sprung into being, but these ships are being tied up by the hundreds and finding nothing to do. Our ports are filled with them. Why? It is partly because our labor requirements are so onerous that shipping of other countries that doesn't have any such conditions imposed upon it by the government can made lower freight rates and therefore take the business, and partly because the cost of building these ships has made such a large capital charge against them that...
...giving of money to colleges has always been considered one of the best ways of serving social betterment. It offers freedom and enlightenment to the nation through improving facilities for education and presents an excellent method for a man of wealth to become a real benefactor. Labor, with its plan of state and Federal endowment of colleges would limit and deaden education. There would be less variations, less diversity, less freedom in educational opportunities. All minds would be sent through the same machinery and cast in the same mould...