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...been announced as the next speaker in the Union's schedule for November and December. Mr. Sheldon will address a meeting to be held next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. His subject will be "Australian Problem," with special reference to the labor situation. Because of the great progress of Australia in the settling of her labor troubles, and the thorough study which Mr. Sheldon has made of the subject, his talk is expected to be particularly illuminating...
Will Explain Labor Laws...
...Sheldon will explain the working of the Australian labor laws, which are far in advance of any other country. At the present time the Australian laborer works under the best conditions in the world, and Mr. Sheldon will describe how this state of affairs was gradually attained. He is a strong advocate of close relations between employer and employer and favors the principle of the open shop, which he considers as necessary to the success of the industrial system as the right of collective bargaining. Australia, he believes has found that compulsory arbitration is a fruitful breeder of strikes rather...
...England approaches the menacing problems of an industrial age with more intelligence than Americans show, it is due, in part at least, to leadership. We tried to improvise a Farmer-Labor Party this year, or a Bull-Moose program in 1912. Our largest city elected in 1913 a mayor whose record arouses great enthusiasm among experts in municipal government, but for political reasons he is swept to a terrific defeat after four years of intellectually triumphant service. Why? Because there is not a sufficiently large class of trained thinkers who keep the people alive to the important aspects of what...
...speech at Philadelphia last week, pointed out that Americanization work among the immigrants is one of the most important functions of the Legion. "We asked permission," he said, "to send representatives of the Legion to talk to the immigrants before they left Ellis Island. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post, for reasons best known to himself, refused to allow us to do this, but we must see to it that America ceases to be the melting pot of nations and becomes one united nation...