Suchergebnisse

Contents: The operation of the Dawes plan; International debts in their relation to world peace; The possibility of disarmament; Foreign investments and international peace; Can the feeling of insecurity in Europe be eliminated without the co-operation of the United States; The outlawry of war.

As professor Friedrich has pointed out in his Foreign Policy in the Making (Norton, New York, 1938) an effective foreign policy presupposes national unity and continuity. President Wilson tasted the bitterness of defeat over his League of Nations because he was an innovator and because he found it impossible to rally the nation behind his plan for American participation in an international peace program. At the present moment President Roosevelt is confronted both inside and outside his party by aggressive dissenters from his foreign policy. Persons and groups posing as the true defenders of the American democratic tradition have demanded the Ludlow referendum on war. They have presented isolationism, neutrality and economic nationalism as the principles of an authentic democratic way of life and have depicted international collaboration against aggressors as autocratic and dictatorial in tendency. The traditional American foreign policy of a "broad neutrality" says former President Hoover in Liberty, April 15, 1939, is being discarded by the present administration for a "vague use of force in association with European democracies." Others say that President Roosevelt is leading the United States into war in order to assure himself a third term and to perpetuate New Deal "dictatorship."

No appraisal of the present-day labor situation can be complete without a discussion of union security, which is one of the most significant trends in modem labor relations. The concept was formulated before the war, but it owes its rapid development to the need for union protection resulting from present abnormal conditions and its immediate purpose is to preserve union morale. Even when considering post-war economic and social policies, this device is important as a basis for determining the position of unions in that era. If union security is widely employed in post-war labor contracts, the device will give unions a position of prominence never before held by any institution or organized group in American history. Whether the policy will be continued voluntarily after the war will be determined by the harmony of labor-employer relations during this period of governmental supervision. Over two years have passed since union security first received support from government agencies, and perhaps some fairly accurate conclusions can be drawn from a study of the evolution of this device under the war program. It is the purpose of this paper to summarize the policies of the National Defense Mediation Board and the War Labor Board with respect to union security, with emphasis on the practical aspects which may be helpful both in the promulgation of contracts and in furnishing a background for future policy development.

"Addresses . delivered at the Institute of politics at Williamstown . July . August, 1927."--Pref. ; "Peace, security, and trade."--Peace without security.--The recovery of Europe.--British policy in China. The rise of the nationalist movement.--Concession and conciliation in China.--The Russian question. ; Mode of access: Internet.