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...called the injustice of the nondenominational laws (religion laws forbidding the teaching of the Roman Catholic religion in Schools). They also advised Catholics to emulate the Radicals who "march in a body to the doors of city halls, prefectures and ministries, send protests, delegations and ultimatums to the authorities, resort to all sorts of proceedings, even to strikes, and besiege and harry the Government, which almost always ends by giving, in to their urgings...
...right of the workers to organize is conceded and collective bargaining is practiced, the possibility of strikes is minimized, but where the exercise of this right is denied and the workers are not permitted to act collectively through their chosen representatives, a spirit of revolt manifests itself and the resort to strikes becomes increasingly probable. Capital realizes this and becomes increasingly willing to withdraw its opposition to the rights of labor. Trade-unions are pioneers in demanding free education and the abolition of child-labor...
...hysteria for the repression of minorities is dying a hard death, Employers still find public support for the breaking of strikes through resort to laws against criminal syndicalism. Any protest by labor unions is proof positive of the spread of sinister influence. And if cries are heard from the red or yellow press--the more need for stern suppression...
...Such a system could hardly fall to produce some good scenes. Fortunately both Miss Hitz, as the siren heroine who robs the hero of his heart in the very first line, and Mr. Nedell, as the big strong man who uses cave-man methods as a last and successful resort, found the parts suited to them and the result was distinctly good...
...unanimous judgment of the committee that this additional sum could not be raised by a multitude of small gifts, but that resort must be had to a different method and that a relatively small number of large gifts must be sought. For this task the committee as earlier organized was no longer needed, since individual effort must be relied upon to secure these larger gifts...