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...infringe upon and limit the fundamental rights of the wage-earners guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Powerful forces are seeking more and more aggressively to deny to wage-earners their right to cease work. Labor denounces these efforts as vicious and destructive of the most precious liberties of our people...

Author: By Samuel M. Gompers, (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: ECONOMIC INTERESTS OF THE WORLD REQUIRE RATIFICATION OF PEACE TREATY BY UNITED STATES SAYS SAMUEL GOMPERS | 4/8/1920 | See Source »

...Allies, France excepted, turned from clinching victory to solving domestic difficulties the treaty turned from steel to gelatine, yielding at the lightest touch of a Prussian finger. There were some stern remonstrances, some fierce threats. But in the end there has not been much but talk, and precious moments when peace and righteous vengeance might have been insured have been lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RESURRECTION. | 3/16/1920 | See Source »

...into radicalism, and confers upon the worst of our deportees the unwarranted title of "martyr." Let us preserve that tolerance for which so many in the early history of America gave their blood, and take care that in threshing out the chaff of the ill we waste not a precious kernel of the Truth. NAT S. WOLLF OCC. DONALD C. PEATTIE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 1/23/1920 | See Source »

...need not worry about giving foreign immigrants the opportunity to derive the benefits of universal military service. They have had that precious privilege in Europe for years and it has been one of the things that has caused people to come to the United States, hitherto free from the blight of Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conquer Militarism. | 11/6/1919 | See Source »

...love of the game, and not from any ulterior consideration of future gain. The springing up of professional football teams will inevitably result in boys playing football at college in order that later they may receive flattering offers from the professional clubs. The game of football, at present the precious heritage of our schools and colleges, will then be turned over to those who regard it merely in terms of dollars and cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Commercialize Football. | 10/2/1919 | See Source »

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