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...relation of social service to the University was clearly brought out by the speakers at the annual conference of social workers at Phillips Brooks House last evening. Professor W. Z. Ripley of the Economics Department spoke of the labor question and its connection with the college undergraduate. "When you get in business you are going to come into contact with the unions. Most people are prejudiced against the unions and it is your place while you are young to begin to size up the situation. Now you are unprejudiced and therefore you have a better opportunity of making up your...
...member of the Finance Commission, will talk on "The Need of Training for Social Service." He will speak particularly of his experiences in relief work after the San Francisco earthquake and the Chelsea and Salem fires. Professor W. Z. Ripley of the Economics Department will deal with the labor question in its relation to undergraduates. Other speakers will be D. Lewis 1L, W. C. Morgan '17, and M. Hawkins '18, each of whom will speak about some phase of social service work with which he has been directly connected. C. Higginson '17 will preside...
Something like a new test for labor comes into view when a trades union congress assembled at Birmingham, England, can pass a resolution declaring that 'members of the clerical profession," being "a large class of able-bodied men engaged in unproductive employment," should not be exempted from the operations of the military...
...time which demands united sacrifice and every class in England is making it. Nowhere is this more apparent than in organized labor...
...Wellington Koo, Chinese Minister to the United States, will talk of education in his native country, and Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield will discuss industrial education. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, will speak on the relation of the American school to the workingman...