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SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT UNDERLIES RADICALISM

Mr. Whiting Williams, Noted Labor Expert, Speaking to Liberal Club, Declares Sympathetic Public Opinion Necessary in Labor Question

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"I found that most radicals wanted a changed system of government in order to gain a steady job", said Whiting Williams, speaking to the Student Liberal Club at luncheon yesterday. Mr. Whilliams has been spending several years among the laborers of Great Britain, Germany, and Russia, and is a recognized authority on labor questions.

"Where money does not secure social position", he said, "it fails to be any motive at all. In the mining towns there is no way a man can register his superior skill except by loafing, and consequently the work is not so well done as it should be.

"The approval of public opinion in other branches of industry improves the quality of a man's work, and inspires him to work harder; and therefore a sympathetic public opinion is necessary".

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