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...many activities in which Professors were engaged have in frequent instances called for a continuance of effort after the suspension of hostilities. Research, food control, and labor problems have not permitted of hasty cessation...
...times of industrial strife and labor troubles which threaten to overturn existing institutions, it is in a way comforting to remember that the problem is not a new one. More than once before nations have been thrown into a turmoil because of capital-labor controversies and they have recovered. As one encouraging example of this truth, we reprint here a statement made by Daniel Webster in 1828, which seems particularly pertinent...
...order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where the wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed slave...
...Yale, the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin, minister of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Charles W. Gilkey '03, pastor of Baptist Church, Chicago, Dr. Zwemer from Arabia, authority on Mohammedanism at the University of Cairo, David Yui of China, and J. Stitt Wilson, a well-known labor leader and lecturer from California. These men will address the Conference in the mornings and evenings and will offer as well the opportunity for personal discussion with the individual members of the delegations...
...between them and the Government. If he really believes in the justice of a wage of ten dollars per week, if he truly appreciates the difficult situation into which the New England public has been thrown, and if as he says he wishes to be loyal to the War Labor Arbitration Board, he can at once submit the whole matter to the Board itself for impartial review, and probably thus end the strike. Altogether it appears to be a case of the tactlessness and obstinacy of one man in the face of a multitude who sincerely believe themselves to have...