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Whiting Williams, vice-president of the Hydraulic Pressed Steel Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio, has been appointed Lecturer on Labor Problems at the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. Williams has done much speaking in recent months on his experiences and observations during a period when he worked as a day-laborer in order to study labor conditions at first-hand...
...seek liquid consolation in Europe or Canada are confronted with the important problem: What temporary employment is there available? A solution may be found in tutoring positions and the like, but the man who wants an open-air job, involving a not to too strenuous degree of physical labor, meets the greatest difficulty in placing himself...
...answer to this last qualification comes a call from the West for extra hands at harvest work. Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska start reaping their wheat in the latter part of June, and with the present shortage of labor, need at the help they can get. It is a tremendous task to gather a harvest in the vast western fields, and under the handicap of a lack of men, it appears well-nigh overwhelming. Outside of the work itself, then, employment harvest help is essentially patriotic. Physically, it offers healthful exercise in the outdoors; the exertion and the novelty...
...Boston Massacre to the present, we have seen that to summon armed force before it is needed can only act as a provocation for violence. The ability to keep cool in a crisis is unhappily too rare. Where it occurs, the crisis usually passes off without further friction. In labor disputes, perhaps more than anywhere else, violence can never be justified except as the last resort, in the face of actual danger. Its untimely use is invariably disastrous. When once we realize this, our labor conflicts will be at once less bloody and less frequent...
...decisive; makes a quick analysis of the league of nations and puts well defined limits to its powers. The greater part of his platform is, however, devoted to domestic problems, beginning with the high cost of living and following its economic and sociological ramifications through the relations of labor and industry, production and economy, taxation, railroads, foreign trade and merchant marine. ment. He ends with the following paragraphs...