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...Student Liberal Club dinner at Cranford Club. Mr. H. M. Lichenstein speaks on "The Socialist Labor Party Program...
...Economic Situation in Russia." Professor Hourwich has been in the service of the United States government holding position with Bureau of the Mint, the Bureau of the Census and the New York Public Service Commission. He is the author of various books on Russia and "Immigration and Labor...
...decrees of the board is left in the last resort to public opinion. This is infinitely preferable to any attempt to take away the "right to strike": and as the machinery of the adjustment boards begins to function, it is to be expected that an increasing proportion of labor disputed will be settled as most of them are at present, without an open break. But when the break comes, and public opinion begins to exert its pressure, it is of the last importance that an impartial board's report should be at hand by which people may judge the facts...
There is no panacea for labor disputes. Even Australia, administered by a Labor government, was recently tied up by an enormous railway strike. The American plan can only succeed in averting trouble if it creates the spirit of industrial peace; and this it seems admirable fitted...
Thus did Mr. Williams depict the uncertainty as to the next day which the laborer had to suffer. This uncertainty he declared was at the bottom of all labor trouble. It explains sabotage and discontent. "If we are to settle the labor problem," he said "we must make employment more regular...