[16] See “History of Socialism in the United States,” by Morris Hillquit (Funk and Wagnalls).

[17] The early Hebrews possessed a few mystery plays, “The Sale of Joseph,” “Esther and Haman,” and “David and Goliath,” and at the Jewish carnival of Purim (Feast of Esther) merrymakers went from house to house giving performances of song and mimicry, but the Yiddish theater is new and was first introduced in Rumania not more than thirty-five years ago. Transplanted to Russia, the actors, said to have been selected from the original strolling companies, played a brilliant brief part until, under government order, the Yiddish theaters were closed there.

[18] Dr. Edward McGlynn was suspended in 1884 under charge of advocacy of Henry George and of holding opinions regarding the rights of property not in accord with Catholic teaching, and later excommunicated. He organized the famous Anti-Poverty Society in 1887. In 1892 he was reinstated, his position being judged not contrary to the doctrine of the Church as confirmed by the Encyclical Rerum Novarum issued by Leo XIII on May 15, 1891.

[19] See reports and bulletins of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control (Dr. George Price, Director), also Bulletins Nos. 98. 144, 145, and 146 of the U. S. Department of Labor, and “Sanitary Control of an Industry by Itself,” by L. D. Wald, in the report of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1913.

[20] In August, 1915, the protocol was succeeded by a time agreement of two years. This agreement contains the main principles of the protocol, with some modifications in the machinery of adjustment.

[21] Report of Commission on Immigration of the State of New York transmitted to the legislature in April, 1909.

[22] “The Construction Camps of the People,” by Lillian D. Wald and Frances A. Kellor (The Survey, January 1, 1910).

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