LABOR'S SPOKESMAN

"Modern Trade Unionism" is a subject of particular interest to every student of labor conditions. Though undergraduates have frequently heard the subject discussed in a detached, impersonal manner by instructors in the economic courses, it is seldom that they have the opportunity to hear it treated by one who is personally and intimately connected with the movement.

Mr. William Green, who speaks tonight at the Union, will present this fresh point of view. As President of the American Federation of Labor, he is the head of the greatest and most powerful trade union movement in the world. Within that organization his views may be considered as holding a mid-point between the two extreme wings. Compared to the conservatives. Mr. Green is a progressive, and yet, compared to the radicals, he is decidedly a conservative. While he favors social legislation and is the author of the Ohio Workman's Compensation law, he opposes the "one big union" idea and the influence of the Third International in trade union affairs. He is radical enough to favor government ownership of the railroads, but he is conservative enough to oppose the entrance of organized labor into the insurance business.

Mr. Green's record in politics and his experience within the ranks of labor bespeak an active and aggressive leader whose opinions, especially, in view of the fact that his administration in just beginning, should be of especial value to those who are interested in the trend of modern unionism, and particularly its future in America.