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...whole economic life seems whirling in a vicious circle: the government sets a maximum price on staples, to reduce the cost of living; labor strikes for higher wages and shorter hours, there by increasing the cost of transportation and manufacture; increased cost sends prices soaring again; until the government's price regulations are encountered, and a new circular motion sets...
...body, as follows: W. L. Bouve '79, Committee on Military Affairs; Hon. J. Q. A. Brackett '65, Committee on Social Welfare; J. M. Codman '84, Committee on State Finance; Professor Hart, Committee on Amendment and Codification; A. P. Loring '78, Committee on Form and Phraseology; J. A. Lowell '91, Labor Committee; Mr. Luce, Committee on Rules and Procedure; J. M. Morton '61, Judiciary' Committee; Hon. A. E. Pillsbury '91, (hon), Committee on Judicial Procedure; Hon. Josiah Quincy '80, Executive Committee; Hon. Joseph Walker '90, Floor Leader of the Committee on Initiative and Referendum...
...Industrial Workers of the World have recently assumed a position of alarming importance in the newspapers throughout the country. Yet very little is known about them by either editor or reader. It is generally recognized that this most insidious of our present labor groups is at the bottom of a large part of the strikes and the willful destruction of property that is taking place throughout the farming and mining country west of the Mississippi. But beyond stories of isolated outrages and the seizure of their leaders and documents by the government, the public knows almost nothing of them...
...labor organization in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is composed of many diverse elements, some of which have mutually antagonistic objects in view. In its worst aspects it unquestionably extends to different forms of treason. But beyond a few leaders, it has no real organization of any kind. These men the government has been arresting. As a result the whole structure has crumbled like a pillar of sand, scattering the individual members over the country where they are still free, however, to do much as they have done in the past...
Violence has always proved ineffective in dealing with labor troubles, and in the present case the use of police or militay power as a means of coercion is impossible because of the widely scattered regions in which mining and farming are carried on. What is needed is some means of exerting a constant and universal pressure on the labor population as a whole. The mere arrest of leaders is not enough. The final solution of the problem must be constructive, rather, than has been the case thus far, destructive. Only in this way can those who deserve the severe treatment...