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...action to keep workers from organizing into unions if they so desire is manifestly unjust. I believe that the idea of the menace of a one hundred percent organized labor unit is vastly over-emphasized, and will create no greater disturbing element than a partly union and partly non-union working body. An ultimate organization of the producers is inevitable in the economic struggle which we are facing, and I believe it is equally inevitable that such an organization will win out. The power thus thrown into the hands of the workingman will necessarily create some difficulties, but none comparable...
...wish we had more organizations as efficient and as conscientious as that run by our Graduate Treasurer, a man who never gets any praise, but who in spite of the fact that he gets every kind of a kick under the sun does a 100 percent job. SIDNEY CURTIS...
...bill not alone the charges for the destruction of France, but also for the pensions of the French soldiers, both of which Germany has been unable to pay. "Had France demanded reparations for the destruction of France and Belgium alone", he declared, "she would have gotten 92 percent of the money asked, but now that she has asked too much, she will probably get only 52 percent. By asking too much France has caused the disruption of Germany and the lowering of the value of the German mark, by which she deprives herself of the money she asks...
...point that I have tried to illustrated can also be applied to the farmer. At the time of the Revolution, ninety percent of the American population were farmers now only thirty percent; and I venture to predict that in 1970 there will be only fifteen percent. This means that on the farm where the brain works as much as the hand, the work to be done is becoming specialised. It requires that the farmer concentrate on one line and take advantage of his position in a field where competition is decreasing and demand for a perfect product is increasing...
...loss in revenue due to the coal strike and extra expense incident to the shopmen's strike have proved severe handicaps. Present indications are that with reasonable freedom from labor troubles, and with a normal volume of traffic, the railroads in general may eventually earn the 5 3-4 percent return which the Interstate Commerce Commission have now fixed as a fair rate of income. There is danger, however, that at the least sign of improvement there will be a general demand for further rate reductions. Lower transportation costs are greatly to be desired in common with lower costs...