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Amherst College has planned to conduct night classes for the workers in Springfield and Holyoke. A meeting was held recently to complete all necessary arrangements, whereby three labor groups, the Central Labor Union of Springfield, the Central Labor Union of Holyoke, and the Amherst organization of the four Railroad Brotherhoods were formed into classes...
...connection with the new movement the Amherst Student says: "This is the first attempt in this country to work out a policy whereby a college, as such, offers its services for the education of labor. The plan was tentatively approved by the Trustees of the College last spring, but as a quorum was not present at that meeting the actual organization of the classes had to wait until the Trustees gave their formal approval last week...
Swinburne Hale '05 will represent the Farmer Labor party. Mr. Hale was one of the leaders of the newly-organized party at its convention in Chicago last July. He was one of the 12 American lawyers who signed the report on the "Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice." At present he is practicing law in New York City...
...despise Harding; I despise Cox and the Democratic party; I loathe the socialist and farmer-labor and prohibitionist platforms; I don't know and don't want to know anything about the "socialist labor" and "single tax" parties. And I strongly suspect that most "respectable" people feel just about as I do. If they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should...
...lectures which will be given on the Australian labor movement may be described, perhaps, as dealing with industrial history in the making. Hon. Crawford Vaughan, by whom these lectures will be delivered, is a former premier of South Australia and has held other public offices. His descriptions of conditions in Australia will be these of a trained economist, experienced in practical affairs and speaking from first-hand knowledge...