Labour policy—false and true : $b A study in economic history and industrial economicsMacassey, Lynden Livingston
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Labour policy—false and true : $b A study in economic history and industrial economics
Macassey, Lynden Livingston
Industrial policy -- Great Britain; Labor economics -- Great Britain; Labour Party (Great Britain)
The uncovenanted service that is needed from each member of the community
“is inspired service that is not measured in cash, about which there are
no overtime disputes, and in which time and a half or double time is
welcomed rather than objected to. And is not that the kind of service for
which the world is pining? Unless we can do away with the nicely balanced
give and take we shall not make progress in alleviating the sufferings of
humanity.” And there is an even broader vision. As against the extreme
Socialists who preach class-warfare, and try to sever class from class,
there is only one true antidote—some strong, compelling, active principle
that tends to bring together all classes, not for selfish ends, but
springing from an ever-present sense of the brotherhood of men.
FOOTNOTES
[1] This is only the number directly affiliated; there are in all 2,350
divisional and Local Labour Parties and Trades Councils.
[2] Reprinted, with additions, as _The Revolutionary Movement in Great
Britain_. Grant Richards, Ltd., 1921.
[3] A good exposition of this school of Socialism is to be found in
Professor J. A. Estey’s _Revolutionary Syndicalism_.
[4] Rt. Hon. J. R. Clynes; Messrs. J. A. Hobson, J. J. Mallon and Misses
Susan Lawrence and Mona Wilson.
[5] The shop stewards, normally, are persons elected by the men of each
craft in each department of an engineering shop to act individually, or
through a “convener” of all the shop stewards of the particular craft as
the connecting link between the men of that craft in the works and the
district delegate or district committee of the craft Trade Union.
[6] Messrs. Adamson and Gosling.
[7] Small Holdings and Allotments Acts, 1908 to 1919; The Acquisition of
Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919; Small Landholders (Scotland)
Acts, 1886 to 1919; Land Settlement (Scotland) Acts, 1919 and 1921; etc.
[8] See _Land Nationalization_, by Harold Cox, 2nd Ed., 1906. Methuen &
Co.
[9] A similar Bill was introduced in the Session of 1922.
[10] Joint Committee of Trades Union Congress, Labour Party, Co-operative
Unionists—Final Report, 1921—(Co-operative Society, Ltd.).
See also:—
1st Report Civil Service Association. _Times_, April 17, 1922.
2nd ” ” ” ” ” July 18, ”
[11] Sir Wm. Mackenzie, K.B.E., K.C., is President.
[12] “The Geddes Committee.”
[13] In fact many railway men work more than 8 hours per day, receiving,
for the excess hours, overtime pay.
[14] The National Union of Railwaymen and the Associated Society of
Locomotive Engineers and Firemen.
[15] The principle had been agreed in January 1920.
[16] Now the General Council of the Trades Union Congress.
[17] The propriety of this disqualification has been referred by the
Minister of Labour to a Committee for consideration and report. (See
_Labour Gazette_, July 1922, p. 287.)
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