Britain Labor Delegates Forge Industrial Democracy
A British conference of 500 labor unionists and employers draws up plans for a new form of governance in industry. The move centralizes power in producer bodies, expanding labor influence and creating industrial parliaments to dictate relations, signaling a long stride toward democracy in industry while avoiding a proletarian dictatorship. A. M. Simons comments on global revolutions and the evolving social order.
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Russia
Germany
Iow
Petrograd
As Ably
Ter
Britain
Great Britain
United States
A. M. Simons
Marginalia in Books Reveal Hidden Lives and Worldviews
Readings from public library margins reveal a mosaic of lives and beliefs from readers past. Notes range from bold atheism to hopeful prayers, with fragments about militarism, propaganda, Bolshevism, and democracy. The sketches hint at ordinary people shaped by history and ideas.
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Pple
Yale
Toilor
Letters to Editor The Star on public health service
A set of letters thanks The Seattle Star for aiding public health work and transparency. J and McBride commends the paper for open discussion that aided public health goals. A former government employee urges caution on foreign workers seeking U S jobs to protect Americans. Walter F Meipr thanks The Star for advisory ballot support during the March 4 1919 election and other courtesies.
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The
Star
Seattle Star
J. & McBride
Commissioner of Health
the Star
United States
Walter F. Meipr
Corporation Counsel
Forty Million Dollar Drive For Presbyterian Work
Presbyterians nationwide plan a March 23 drive to raise forty million dollars in three hours with 130000 canvassers. Funds fund local church work, overseas relief, temperance efforts, preacher salaries, and evangelical education. A second item features a humorous exchange: Mrs Crabshaw recalls her childhood, Willie asks how she avoided telltale stories.
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Charles Stelzle
Europe
Instructive Humorous Pieces Publish in Starshells Riddles
A collage of household mischief and social satire appears in Starshells with Mrs. Sharp reporting a burglary in which two quarts of Pebbleford whisky and a roasted chicken vanished during a church service. The item mocks bootleg liquor and quizzical columnists, while a poem and quips from readers reflect small-town wit and fiscal anxieties about income tax and clever punchlines.
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J. Sharp
12Th Ave
Sharp
Gardens and the robin guide wartime home plots
A government pamphlet urges readers to start or expand Victory Gardens after World War I. It recommends writing the National War Garden Commission for The Victory Garden Book, using the robin as a signal to plan, and stresses seed shortages, early planting, club gardening, and prioritizing backbone crops like potatoes and tomatoes while nourishing soil with lime and manure.
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National War Garden Commission
Washington, D. C
Victory
Commission
Europe
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