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...long rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna would affect 14,000 men, tie up millions of dollars of defense orders...
...about the social functions of the school, -- the version which had an astronomically remote resemblance to the ideas expressed in my published works (Social Mobility, ch.ix), as well as in my lecture. Second, contrary to the rule of an elementary press-ethics, it did not publish my letter of protest and repudiation sent to the editor of the Crimson. Third, in this way Crimson started the avalanche of yellow, stupid, and half-obscene publicity in which the super-sensate and silly ideas of the reporters were ascribed to me. Fourth, few days ago Crimson added to these steps an impudency...
...because Browder was under indictment for a passport violation. But a large number of students saw through this flimsy pretext, recognized in the ban against the secretary of the Communist Party a dangerous attack on civil liberties, and several hundred students expressed their recognition by petitioning the University in protest...
...urge all students to join in protesting this attack on democracy, to attend the protest meeting in Boston on Wednesday evening, February 26. The meeting, to be addressed by William Z. Foster, National chairman of the Communist Party, will take place in the Old South Meeting House, on Washington and Milk Streets, at 8 P.M. Let Harvard students, who rose to the defense of civil rights last year, rise again on this far more critical occasion. The Harvard John Reed Society...
...Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Pepper is a coward," screeched Mrs. Dilling. "He's just an old scaredy-cat and won't talk to us. How much is he getting to sell this Republic out? I'm hot and bothered. We came here to protest against this dictatorship and war bill. . . . We want other things too. We want warm blankets for the boys in camp who are cold...