Industrial Democracy Group Sponsors Talk By Laidler on Unions

"Crisis in the Coal Mines" will be the subject of an address by harry W. Laidler, authority on industrial nationalization to the Harvard Society for Industrial Democracy at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the Winthrop House Senior Common Room. A student discussion on the same topic will constitute the second half of the meeting.

Laidler, the Executive Secretary of the National League for Industrial Democracy, will discuss the role of trade unionism in government controlled industry.

Organized last summer, the group's purpose is to analyze programs of various socialist movements, to consider alternative plans for nationalization and regulation of industry, and to discover how socialist and labor parties achieve political power in a democracy, according to its chairman, Irving P. Phillips '50. To this end, leaders of the Political left and of labor movements of the Unites States and foreign countries are invited to address the group.

Membership is open to any student who does not subscribe to a political program that calls for a one party system.