Word: shop
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Twenty million dollars as a starter that is what the American Federation of Labor proposes to spend in its fight against what it considers a capitalistic plot to further the "open shop." If its only opponents were the capitalists and employers this sum might be sufficient, but unless the Federation changes its beliefs it is likely that public opinion will be lined up with its opponents; and no amount of money can change that. Mr. Bohm, who is the secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor...
...trying to cause unemployment, it is seldom that we find an employer deliberately ruining his business. Unemployment will neither reduce his prices nor will it satisfy public opinion. The fact is that labor is largely the cause as well as the victim of present conditions. If the open shop is to go, something must take its place, some guarantee of production from the unions that will satisfy both the employers and public opinion...
...rise of modern industrialism and the wages system; money, prices and the cost of living; speculation, corporation finance and trusts; wages and profits; economic security--industrial accidents, unemployment and poverty; minimum wage laws and agreements; the relations of employers and employees in theory and practice; trade unionism; the closed shop and collective bargaining; the conservation of human resources; child labor, the work of women and the hours of labor; the law in its relation to labor; and programs of reconstruction...
...which is apropos of the fact that today is the last day upon which the Union keeps open house. Hereafter only members will be allowed the varied privileges of the club: the dining rooms, the library, the barber shop, the billiard room, the tea dances, and the thousand and one other diversions and conveniences therein provided. Don't be a social scab on the Harvard body politic. Join the Union...
...sales of $560,828.20 during the year preceding, an increase of $313,283.28. The increase in sales at the Harvard Square stores amounted to $257,638.46, and at the Technology Branch the increase was $65,800.08. There was a decrease of $3,853.55 in the business of the barber shop at the Institute of Technology and a further decrease of $6,301.71 due to the closing of the Canteen, which was maintained during 1918 for the use of men in the service...