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Page 10 - I look upon such actions with grave apprehension. A very serious responsibility is assumed when such precedents are set.
Page 2 - When your Executive Committee paid me the compliment of inviting me here I gladly accepted the invitation because it seems to me that this above all other times in our history is the time for common counsel, for the drawing together not only of the energies but of the minds of the nation.
Page 11 - ... conditions and to the absence of processes of orderly government in industry the strikes of 1917 must, fundamentally, be attributed. These conditions may not have been left unavailed of by enemies of our war policy nor by exponents of syndicalist industrialism, but neither sinister influences nor the IWW can account for these strikes. The explanation is to be found in unremedied and remediable industrial disorders.
Page 7 - ... sorely troubled for lack of a word, a phrase, an expression with which to give poignant utterance to that which is in my heart ; to adequately describe a certain sort of thing in human shape, that wears the outward semblance of a man, but yet is a craven cur ; whose heart is as malignant as a cess-pool; whose mind is a sink of infamy; whose character is as devoid of principle as that of a mowing ape in an African jungle ; who is the veriest stranger to humanity ; who exhibits no generous impulse,...
Page 7 - Country's dire stress ; to vent a personal prejudice under the guise of patriotism, or to gain for himself a pecuniary advantage under the starry folds of his Country's flag with which he drapes his sorry, soulless figure. There is no word in all the range of human tongues, from Sanskrit to Anglo-Saxon, with which to describe this creature, so I abandon the effort in despair. It is individuals of the type which I have just tried so vainly to depict who have sown the...
Page 10 - These strikes grew out of a long-standing struggle between the forces of legitimate organized labor and the forces of organized business, dominated by the copper companies. So far as there was a concerted attack by the I.WTW., it was principally directed against the unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.

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