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...intercollegiate conference on labor and radical movements, to which the Student Liberal Club is to send a delegation, has been called by the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, to be held simultaneously with the Twelfth Annual Convention of the Society. All members of the University who are interested in the fundamental social questions of the day are invited to take part in the conference to be held during the Christmas holidays...
Norman Angell will speak on the subject, "The Labor Movement and International Chaos," at a supper conference given by the League for Democratic Control at the Twentieth Century Club at 3 Joy street, Boston, on Monday evening, December the 20th, at 6 o'clock...
...hold degrees from the Graduate School, the larger number have gone into teaching, chiefly in colleges and universities, many of them directing the most advanced study and research of other graduate schools. Some, like Senator Lodge and Secretary Houston, and the Honorable Mackenzie King, recently Minister of Labor in Canada, have gone into public service, whether in the general work of politics and administration or in scientific or statistical work of a more specialized type. Others have gone into industry as consulting chemists and geologists, or into the newer fields of industrial research. Still others will be found in literary...
...general public, and especially the unhoused public, has a right to complain bitterly of conditions which have made building in New York, and to a considerable extent in other cities, dependent almost wholly on the situation of a "fight to the finish" between union labor on one side and on the other an organization which is doing its best to get rid of an exclusively unionized labor. We have blamed, with reason, the Bethlehem Steel Company for seeking to restrict the sale of its steel to "open shop" builders, but it must be acknowledged that the offence of these manufacturers...
...heavy bribes extorted from the contractors and corporations, have supplied the real sensation of the building trades investigation. Against such a system of blackmail as that which they put in force, the "hated capitalist" was bound to react. He reacted too far in seeking to prescribe union labor by the means of combination. But his error and offence in that respect should not throw the Lockwood investigation--or the Congressional--inquiry which is to follow--off the scent of the real and capital offence, which is the corruption and tyranny that have permeated every branch of the building business...