“Unfortunately the bright promise of the earlier chapters is not fulfilled. There are thrills and mystery a-plenty, but the author takes too long in expounding them and by the time they are cleared up they have ceased to thrill.”
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“In spite of the story being such a jumble, the writing evidently is that of a trained hand, for the sentences are neatly put together and the author is not devoid of descriptive power. Readers who enjoy hurrying along from one disconnected incident to another and who like a long story will probably find this one to their taste.”
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AMERICAN labor year book, 1919–1920; ed. by Alexander Trachtenberg. (v 3) *$2 Rand school of social science 331
“Part I of this book deals with labor in the war, with the organization of many governmental boards of adjustment and policy-making, and with the actual administration of those laws which were drawn to curb ‘seditious activities.’ Part II is a record of organized labor, with historical reviews of different trade union ventures (including such interesting experiments as the work of the United labor education committee) and with records of strikes and lockouts during the last two years. The third section of the book contains a digest of new labor legislation, of court decisions affecting labor, and of the progress of plans for health insurance, pensions and the minimum wage. Part IV is a more general discussion of social and economic conditions. It deals with the cost of living, profiteering, unemployment, woman suffrage, plans for public ownership of the railways, and the history of the Nonpartisan league in North Dakota. Part V is a short record of the recent activities of cooperative, labor and socialist movements in some thirty different countries. And the final section of the book is devoted to the socialist movement in America.”—New Repub
“While the volume bears the imprint of the Socialist, it manifests much less of class or partisan bias than do many articles and volumes prepared and circulated by ultra-conservative organizations.” F. T. Carlton
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“Unfortunately it is rather an incoherent volume. Though the arrangement could be better and the statistical tables less partial, still the year book contains useful material, much of which is nowhere else easily accessible.” H. J. Laski