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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Unfortunately, however, these courts are some distance away and they belong to a private club. The fact that they belong to a club automatically limits the membership and prevents a large number of men from indoor practice, who would, if the University had these facilities, have a better chance to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/23/1920 | See Source »

A building with four indoor courts would, in a measure, fill this need; for it is a matter of record that more men take tennis as a form of exercise to keep fit than any other sport in the University. The encouragement of a sport that men can keep up...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/23/1920 | See Source »

Throughout the meeting of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor last week, a pronounced trend toward conservatism was to be noticed. Mr. Tobin, Treasurer of the A. F. of L., scored the general strike. Mr. Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., says that present standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATIVE LABOR | 11/23/1920 | See Source »

This growth of conservatism, however, is not to be wondered at. It is the only policy that is open to labor when it has to meet conditions in which there are more men than jobs. Moreover, labor realizes that if it wishes to make headway with the Republican Congress, put...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATIVE LABOR | 11/23/1920 | See Source »

Labor is following a policy of opportunism, then. It is going to adopt a program of conservatism, not because its ideas have changed, but because it must. Men must be kept employed even if wages have to be lowered. Strikes are disastrous in such circumstances. A restriction of immigration will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONSERVATIVE LABOR | 11/23/1920 | See Source »

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