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...management has spared no effort to reduce costs of heat, light, and labor, and still be able to serve food of high quality. It was found that only a small amount of expense could be cut down. They state that Commons cannot be successfully operated until a system is instituted similar to that at the University where a nucleus is formed by compelling the Freshmen to eat in the University dining halls; or similar to that at Princeton where the two lower classes are compelled to eat at the university dining halls...
...Laidler is an expert on labor and social problems, and author of "Boycotts and the Labor Struggle," "Socialism in Thought and Action," and other treatises on similar subjects. He has been active in the work of the Socialist Party and is at present Secretary of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, an organization which aims to promote the study of Socialism in the colleges of the country...
...does labor strike? Figures published by the Bureau of Mediation and Arbitration in New York show that of the 240 industrial disputes in that state for one year, 139 were for higher wages, 21 for shorter hours and 37 were on the question of trade unionism. The most noticeable, feature of these statistics is that the number of demands for higher wages was 52 percent greater than in the previous report. It indicates clearly the attitude of labor to force its demands without reasoning matters out. For the idea of settling higher wages in proportion to greater production never appeared...
Tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Union, Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, will address a meeting, open to all members of the Union, on the subject of "Australian Problems." Mr. Sheldon will deal especially with the labor situation in Australia, on which he is a noted authority, and will point out the progress made in that country toward making its workers the best treated in the world...
...Sheldon will present his views on the different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...