Identifier: independen89v90newy (find matches)
Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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strial dominance of women onthis earth! A corollary of the Kaisers enter-prize is that a great many reaction-aries—employers and others—are say-ing that he has put a rack and awrench to the world and twisted a lotof things out of joint. There are elements in the presentsituation, certainly, that are new tothings beneath the sun. Women havegot by war a chance they have neverhad. Labor has got unprecedented power.And it will likely retain this power be-cause of the shortage of able-bodiedmen. It may be well for us all to pon-der what these premises mean. And it may truly be not altogetherout of point to suggest that the his-torian, writing twenty or thirty yearsfrom now, may look back on these daysof change and write: Spring, 1917, found the UnitedStates in the midst of an industrialand social revolution. Even in the thirdyear of the Great Affliction—about adecade short of a millennium—the ele-ments of the Great Change by Ameri-cans had hardly been discerned atall. New York City
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© Underwood i Underwood Colonel in 1914, General in 1915, Commander of French forces at Verdun in 1916, and Chief of Staff at the French Min-istry of War in 1917, with the immediate possibility of being given extended authority in the field—Petain, the Prepared! The Independent N E W S -

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