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... be futile unless it included representatives of American labor . Mr. Gompers and his colleagues had scented the futility of the thing , but they saw the German hand behind it . The NEW MAJORITY IN THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY 13.
... be futile unless it included representatives of American labor . Mr. Gompers and his colleagues had scented the futility of the thing , but they saw the German hand behind it . The NEW MAJORITY IN THE BRITISH LABOUR PARTY 13.
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... Gompers who addressed “ all the national labor movements of the world , ” inviting them to cooperate in the holding of an international trade union congress , at the same time and place as the meeting of the official peace ...
... Gompers who addressed “ all the national labor movements of the world , ” inviting them to cooperate in the holding of an international trade union congress , at the same time and place as the meeting of the official peace ...
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... Gompers ' proposal were not very different from those which Gompers himself was to encounter , two years hence , when , no longer a neutral , and an opponent of any war time meeting with German labor , he attended the British Trades ...
... Gompers ' proposal were not very different from those which Gompers himself was to encounter , two years hence , when , no longer a neutral , and an opponent of any war time meeting with German labor , he attended the British Trades ...
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... Gompers took to heart so entirely that with the lapse of time , and their positions reversed , he employed no others more vehemently in countering the later British program which embodied his own proposal as one of its chief features ...
... Gompers took to heart so entirely that with the lapse of time , and their positions reversed , he employed no others more vehemently in countering the later British program which embodied his own proposal as one of its chief features ...
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... Gompers of America and Hughes of Australia , and which sought to split the political labor movement by starting a purely trade union party ( with the socialist elements left out ) in opposition to the British Labour Party . At Derby 1 ...
... Gompers of America and Hughes of Australia , and which sought to split the political labor movement by starting a purely trade union party ( with the socialist elements left out ) in opposition to the British Labour Party . At Derby 1 ...
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Page 262 - The destruction of every arbitrary power anywhere that can separately, secretly, and of its single choice disturb the peace of the world ; or, if it cannot be presently destroyed, at the least its reduction to virtual impotence.
Page 353 - Fourth, that all well-defined national aspirations shall be accorded the utmost satisfaction that can be accorded them without introducing new or perpetuating old elements of discord and antagonism that would be likely in time to break the peace of Europe and consequently of the world.
Page 104 - To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible, upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.
Page 353 - Second, that peoples and provinces are not to be bartered about from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were mere chattels and pawns in a game...
Page 353 - Third, every territorial settlement involved in this war must be made in the interest and for the benefit of the populations concerned, and not as a part of any mere adjustment or compromise of claims amongst rival states...
Page 81 - We are ready, whenever the final reckoning is made, to be just to the German people, deal fairly with the German power, as with all others. There can be no difference between peoples in the final judgment, if it is indeed to be a righteous judgment. To propose anything but justice, even-handed and dispassionate justice, to Germany at any time, whatever the outcome of the war, would be to renounce and dishonor our own cause. For we ask nothing that we are not willing to accord.
Page 129 - ... and wage-slavery; with its glorification of the unhampered struggle for the means of life and its hypocritical pretense of the "survival of the fittest"; with the monstrous inequality of circumstances which it produces and the degradation and brutalization, both moral and spiritual, resulting therefrom, may, we hope, indeed have received a death blow.
Page 420 - The settlement of the general principles governing the conditions of employment, including the methods of fixing, paying, and readjusting wages, having regard to the need for securing to the workpeople a share in the increased prosperity of the industry.
Page 82 - Germany has once more said that force, and force alone, shall decide whether justice and peace shall reign in the affairs of men, whether right as America conceives it or dominion as she conceives it shall determine the destinies of mankind. There is, therefore, but one response possible from us: Force, force to the utmost, 6 force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.
Page 372 - We need not here recapitulate, one by one, the different items in the Labour Party's programme, which successive Party Conferences have adopted. These proposals, some of them in various publications worked out in practical detail, are often carelessly derided as impracticable, even by the politicians who steal them piecemeal from us! The members of the Labour Party, themselves actually working by hand or by brain, in close contact with the facts, have perhaps at all times a more accurate appreciation...