Word: strife
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...Crucible" is a drama of life among the workers in the Pittsburg steel mills It is similar, in a general way, to "Strife" and the "Mob", by John Galsworthy. The subject and main theme of the piece is the social conditions in the Pittsburg steel mills, coupled with the outlook on life of the workers there. The effect of the mills and the industry upon the minds of these people forms an important part of the atmosphere...
This very position is taken by the "Paris Temps", which--feeling that strife will by no means be abolished--desires some adequate protection. It therefore proposes that the Conference adopt the following "principle", which was quoted in the "New York Times...
...Dramatic Club and the Idler Club of Radcliffe are cooperating in collecting the men and women members of the mob, who are not in any way limited to members of these two clubs. Mr. Jewett asked for men from the University for John Galsworthy's "Strife" last year, and the success of its mob scene has encouraged him to try a similar experiment this year...
...Labor's "grand old man", however, has declined to give up without a struggle. His supporters have resurrected the well-worn charge of a "slush fund", and are plying their trade with all the gusto of professional politicians. There will be "great doin's" in Denver before long. Factional strife was never so ominous as at present. Labor has had pretty much its own way of late years; one begins to wonder whether the discordant units which make up the A. F. of L. can much longer work in close harmony...
...England, iorn by industrial strife, a group of laboring men have instituted a movement that may aid in the solution of the housing and building trades problems that beset various sections of the United States. The lack of home facilities for workers and the prevalent unemployment of many wage-earners ordinarily engaged in construction work, led to the organization of the Building Guild, so called because of its great resemblance to the trade combinations of the days before the Industrial Revolution. The members have done away with the hampering regulations of the modern unions, which for instance, prevent a carpenter...