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...have read the various articles upon the labor question in the Crimson and I have been greatly amused by them. I believe that they are the work of one who knows not the slightest thing about the labor question...
...third speaker of the evening, Dr. Antoinette F. Knoikow, is now practicing medicine in Boston, having come to America shortly after the Russian revolution. She is working for the Communist Labor Party and is one of the most prominent exponents of communism in this country...
...American audiences in the interests of building up a friendly attitude and establishing right relations between native and foreign-born Americans; fifth, act as a recruiting agency for classes in teaching English to immigrants; sixth, cooperate with foreign clubs and societies in the community; seventh, persuade businesses employing foreign labor to cooperate with the school authorities; eighth, arrange patriotic programs for immigrants, wherever they are accustomed to meet and supply speakers, and lantern slides or moving picture reels...
Everyone will not be satisfied with what the present Congress accomplished in its final session. Its worst critics will affirm that it did things it ought not to have done and left undone all the important things. Labor wants immediate action on the immigration question; others want relief at once from the heavy burdens of war-time taxation. And to make matters worse the long-suffering Congress has only-till March 4 to satisfy popular clamor...
...labor problem in Australia has always been one of great importance. There are 767 labor unions in the country, with a membership of 580,000, which includes, practically all the workers. Legislation has long been developing to control this highly organized labor, to regulate wages, hours, and conditions of work. Labor has several times even held the upper hand in the government for periods of three or four years, and no laws passed at those times have ever been repealed, showing that the workers take their responsibility seriously...