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aggression Allied Alsace Alsace-Lorraine ARTHUR HENDERSON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY Barnard Castle Belgium British Labour capitalist civilisation classes co-operation colonies common Conference declares conquest cracy demands demo demobilisation democratic democratic control desire domination economic effective Electricity Empire ence enforce equality Excess Profits Tax factory fighting forces freedom future German Government guarantee hand hostilities ideals Imperial individual Inter-Allied Conference interests JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Labour and Socialist Labour movement Labour Party holds Labour Party intends Labour Party stands League of Nations liberty material means ment methods military moral movement necessary nomic oppression organised democracy Parliament political parties popular possible practical present principles problems production profiteering proposal question railway realise recognise reconstruction regard revolution sacrifice seek self-determination society spirit struggle taxation ternational territorial tion tional Trade Union Trade Union Congress unemployment United Kingdom victory wage-earners wage-slavery wages whole workers world peace
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Page 38 - The treaties and agreements which bring it to an end must embody terms which will create a peace that is worth guaranteeing and preserving, a peace that will win the approval of mankind, not merely a peace that will serve the several interests and immediate aims of the nations engaged.
Page 113 - Nation's industry, no longer deflected by individual profiteering, on the basis of the common ownership of the means of production; the equitable sharing of the proceeds among all who participate in any capacity and only among these...
Page 96 - 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 58 - The time has arrived when all possible encouragement should be given to the development of imperial resources and especially to making the Empire independent of other countries in respect of food supplies, raw materials, and essential industries.
Page 103 - No annexations or punitive indemnities, and the right of all peoples to self-determination," and that they are working with all their power to obtain from their Governments the necessary guarantees to apply these principles honestly and unreservedly to all questions to be dealt with at any official peace conference.
Page 120 - From the same source must come the greatly increased public provision that the Labor Party will insist on being made for scientific investigation and original research, in every branch of knowledge, not to say also for the promotion of music, literature, and fine art, which have been under capitalism so greatly neglected, and upon which, so the Labor Party...
Page 95 - 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 117 - Labor party stands for such a system of taxation as will yield all the necessary revenue to the government without encroaching on the prescribed national minimum standard of life of any family whatsoever; without hampering production or discouraging any useful personal effort, and with the nearest possible approximation to equality of sacrifice.