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Mark Sullivan '00, the famous newspaper correspondent, will speak at the Union in the fifth of the main lecture series, next Monday, December 13, at 8 o'clock. It is understood that he will deal with the problems confronting President-elect Harding and his cabinet, such as immigration, taxation, labor and foreign relations...
...spite of all this, the great mass of laborers are not naturally Bolshevists; the 30,000,000 workers of the civilized world want to be shown the way out. The Bolshevists urge a bloody revolution, and some times progress better than the larger number of advocates of steady evolution, because of their better understanding, appreciation and sympathy with the workers. A jobless laborer is easy prey for them; if he is busy, he pays no attention. In Glasgow, where nearly all the shipworkers have irregular jobs there is unbelievable unrest and misery. On the other hand, in Middleboro, England...
Under the auspices of the Liberal Club and the Harvard Union, Mr. Harry Snell, a prominent member of the English Labor Party, will speak this evening at 8 o'clock in the Quiet Room of the Union. Mr. Snell is a member of the London County Council, and Secretary of the International Ethical Union. He is visiting this country as a representative of his party. His subject tonight will be "English Labor." The meeting, which will be informal, will be open to all members of the Union...
...addition to giving lectures on his specialty, the financing of industries, Mr. Catchings will take his part in the instruction in the School's new course on labor relations, which is designed to present every aspect of the problem of industrial relations, and every point of view upon it. Among the other men who are teaching in this course out of their first-hand experience are Wallace B. Donham '98. Dean of the School; Robert Fechner, the prominent labor leader; Whiting Williams, former Vice-President of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Company of Cleveland, who has spent many months...
...Antolnette F. Konikow, the speaker for the Communist Labor Party, showed that the modern state existed solely because of the existence of classes and that there could be no real democracy until classes ceased to exist. She called upon the capitalists, who control the people today, to admit frankly that we have no democracy and upon the Socialist Party to stop deceiving the people by showing the possibilities of Parliamentary action, which, she claimed, was obviously impossible because capitalists and present conditions were against it. The communists were followers of Karl Marx in desiring through direct action the dictatorship...