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...standard of living of our people differs entirely from that of the native of India, China or even Japan. There is, therefore, a strong economic objection to cheap and inferior labor being admitted. We are solving the problem of developing both our temperate and tropical zones by white labor and are doing it successfully...
...some four million men out of productive industry. Prices climbed rapidly. When the war was won everybody felt that we would revert back to the "good old days." Instead of going to work to make up the shortage of goods, however, we experienced a general let-down in industry. Labor went on a vacation. Supply dwindled. At the same time the Government found processes of war financing. We had needed money during the war--so we printed it. We needed more after the war so we printed some more. Circulation per capita finally stood at $58 as compared...
...Assistant Professor Francis B. Sayre, Law '12, as one "who had done so much to further liberal thought," Mr. Angell began by showing that the population of much of Western Europe cannot be maintained at a standard of life necessary for social peace except by an international division of labor, an international economy...
Shouts of "graft," "corruption" and "waste" drown out the voices of those few brave men, notably Mr. Babson, who ask us to be optimistic toward the business outlook. Every day reveals more scandals involving both government officials and labor leaders as well as business men, from the building trades in New York City to the Emergency Fleet Corporation transactions which cover the entire country. Labor cries out against unemployment as a result of a capitalistic plot, while capital begs for some stabilization in the labor situation. To glance at a front page of a newspaper one would think that...
...assertion that capital is trying to cause unemployment, it is seldom that we find an employer deliberately ruining his business. Unemployment will neither reduce his prices nor will it satisfy public opinion. The fact is that labor is largely the cause as well as the victim of present conditions. If the open shop is to go, something must take its place, some guarantee of production from the unions that will satisfy both the employers and public opinion...