Word: movement
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...collective bargaining, leaving to the employees in each instance the right in choose the agency by which they should be represented. Concerning the public group, Mr. Fish contended that these gentlemen compromised the situation, fearing lest a failure of the present leaders of organized labor would turn that movement over to the I. W. W. and similar Boishevik agitators...
...killing of four veterans of the World War of Centralia, Washington, was not only dastardly, it was, for the success of the I. W. W. movement, exceedingly unwise. In addition to horrifying the entire population of the country, it aroused the special enmity of the American Legion, under the banner of which the murdered men were marching. This latter body, numbering nearly four million men, represents, as it were, a cross-section of American society. In its ranks are enrolled members of all social and industrial classes. The I. W. W., in aiming its weapons against the Legion...
Apart from our opinion on the merits of compulsory military training, and quite apart from any peculiar national or international conditions that make it now more or less desirable than before the War, it would be the worst sort of folly for the University to be identified with a movement for universal service. It seems to me obvious that this question is one about which the University has no business to be partisan. For it to "further by its inspiration the establishment of a universal service throughout the nation" would be as inappropriate as for it to oppose the adoption...
...further pointed out in this report that, in spite of the fact that this department suffered from the war the same as the other departments of the University, it was nevertheless very active and progressive during this period. This is shown particularly in the recent movement to better the conditions of co-operation with affiliated schools which have been developed here in Cambridge within the last few years, and was also exemplified by the interdenominational meeting held in Cambridge in the summer...
...Representatives of the University and of many other institutions interested in student volunteer work will gather there to discuss various plans of constructive action. The meeting will be addressed by many men prominent in the missionary field, among whom are: R. P. Wilder, General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, New York, H. C. Stuntz, resident Bishop of Nebraska; D. Brewer Eddy, Associate Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Alden H. Clark, Candidate Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions...