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...that Mister Laski, not Professor, as the papers state, has taken the field again on he side of the down-troden union man. His address was to the women folk of the striking policemen. For the conclusion of his address the newspapers quoted the phrase, "Labor will never yield." Perhaps Mr. Laski will state what it is that labor thus tenaciously clings to and enunciate clearly the principle he is talking...
...union question can be taken from the other side of the picture. Private labor can organize. It has done so with great benefits and many attendant evils to public comfort. The organization of municipal employee can receive a lesson from New York City. A Unionization of federal employees in an an organization autocratic by its very nature if absurd...
...gives the laborer a voice in the control of his means of livlihood, and also claims he has in other ways satisfactorily solved many of the present-day labor difficulties. At the meeting today Mr. Plumb will try to answer the many objections that have been raised to his proposition and will emphasize its good points...
Profesor Foerster is one of the many students of the labor situation who believe that the present unrest is not caused primarily by the anarchy of the radical elements, either here or in Europe. "Strikes are now more prevalent in America and abroad than at any other period of modern history. They are not, however, due to the utterances of some long-haired European radical, but are caused by two entirely different factors. The first is the increasing pressure of the cost of living, which results in an unrest among the workingmen. The second is the growing feeling among...
What Mr. Laski meant to say was undoubtedly that all labor has the right to organize as it will; and having spent the time and labor necessary to write a very dry and scholarly book completely setting forth this view, it must be rather discouraging to find himself so completely reversed. Whether Mr. Laski is right or not is open to discussion; but let us at least grant him the privilege of being "different." HAROLD M. FLEMING...