Word: sheldon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three University professors, Paul H. Hanus, Edwin H. Hall and Edward S. Sheldon '72 will retire from active teaching at the end of the year, and each of them has been appointed professor emeritus by the Governing, Boards of the University...
...There is no question of White Australia," declared Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, speaking at the Union last night, "it was settled years...
...Sheldon declared that "Australia's first problem is to settle her vast fertile areas with a white people, which must have as high a standard of living as the present population of over five million. A vigorous policy of inducing British immigration has been adopted. Australia is accepting only immigrants of certified health and character...
...speaking of the tariff question, Mr. Sheldon explained why it was necessary for Australia to have a strict protective tariff. Australia, as shown in the past war, must be self-supporting; her industries must be protected. America is her nearest neighbor, and she is 8000 miles away. The results of this tariff policy are shown in the recently founded steel industry, which already supplies the country's needs for rails and all kinds of structural steel...
...Sheldon will present his views on the different aspects of the labor situation, particularly in regard to the open shop, collective bargaining and compulsory arbitration. He is a strong defender of the first two principles, but believes that the last does more to cultivate the striking habit than to restrain it. He lays this fault principally to the impossibility of enforcing the strike-prevention law. While America is in a stage of industrial upheaval, Australia has already gone through this development, and in Mr. Sheldon's speech its experience should be valuable in the settling of problems here...