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...case. But the Mediation Board preferred to pass the buck, because, it claimed, any stand would influence present negotiations between the CIO and "Little Steel" on the same issue. Meanwhile, the strike date was approaching, Mr. Roosevelt sent three letters to Lewis requesting that he hold off until a settlement could be reached, John L. turned a deaf ear, and the issue rode into its present crisis stage...
...should be criticized for trying, stupidly, to maintain labor's status quo by doing nothing. Morgan and his cronies have perverted the defense cloak in order to maintain an unjust open shop. And the President, his feet grown cold since the famous 1932-33 days, has failed to force settlement on the purely union-shop basis and thus to thwart the personal ambitions of Lewis and Morgan...
Members of the executive committee of the New England Work Camp Association, along with representatives of the Student Christian movement, initiated the first of a series of week-end work camps last Saturday, as they spent the day in making improvements in a colored settlement house near Central Square, Cambridge...
...must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire. Can we not summon up in ourselves an idea of a just settlement and an independent will to promote it before this catastrophe overtakes mankind. W. E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy...
...where they were joined by students from Radcliffe, B. U., Wheaton, and Wellesley, broke firmly with the tradition of decorative idleness. They occupied themselves during a seven-hour day with c carpentering, painting, and doing odd jobs in the rambling, converted school building which houses Cambridge's only colored settlement, and they spent the evening discussing and planning future "Weekend Work Camps," urban and rural, for which they expected to recruit several times their number from colleges in the Greater Boston area...