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... Delegates enu- merated 15 points in the form of instructions to its delegate to the Allied War Conference , Paris ; the Bolsheviki took over the government and organized a council of National Commissioners on November 7 , 1917 , in ...
... Delegates enu- merated 15 points in the form of instructions to its delegate to the Allied War Conference , Paris ; the Bolsheviki took over the government and organized a council of National Commissioners on November 7 , 1917 , in ...
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... delegate conference of the British Trades Union Congress ( the industrial organization of British labor ) and the Labour Party ( the political organization of British labor ) came forward with their joint statement of war aims on ...
... delegate conference of the British Trades Union Congress ( the industrial organization of British labor ) and the Labour Party ( the political organization of British labor ) came forward with their joint statement of war aims on ...
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... delegates to the Stock- holm or any other conference which would include delegates from enemy countries . There were times , he said , when loyalty to an executive , particularly in a case like this , meant treason to the rank and file ...
... delegates to the Stock- holm or any other conference which would include delegates from enemy countries . There were times , he said , when loyalty to an executive , particularly in a case like this , meant treason to the rank and file ...
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... delegate going , no matter what the decision of the conference might be , to be careful what they were doing . The time would come when those who aided and abetted that policy would be the first to suffer . In its comment on this ...
... delegate going , no matter what the decision of the conference might be , to be careful what they were doing . The time would come when those who aided and abetted that policy would be the first to suffer . In its comment on this ...
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... delegates to attend the Stockholm meeting . An inter- Allied conference called by the British section of the Inter- national Socialist Bureau [ London , August 21 , 1917 ] brought together sixty - eight delegates representing eight ...
... delegates to attend the Stockholm meeting . An inter- Allied conference called by the British section of the Inter- national Socialist Bureau [ London , August 21 , 1917 ] brought together sixty - eight delegates representing eight ...
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Page 268 - 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 379 - Party — is the securing to every member of the community, in good times and bad alike (and not only to the strong and able, the well-born or the fortunate), of all the requisites of healthy life and worthy citizenship.
Page 85 - We have ourselves proposed no injustice, no aggression. 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...
Page 424 - ... that His Majesty's Government should propose without delay to the various associations of employers and employed the formation of Joint Standing Industrial Councils in the several industries, where they do not already exist, composed of representatives of employers and employed, regard being paid to the various sections of the industry and the various classes of labour engaged.
Page 243 - No people must be forced under sovereignty under which it does not wish to live. No territory must change hands except for the purpose of securing those who inhabit it a fair chance of life and liberty.
Page 396 - If we repudiate, on the one hand, the Imperialism that seeks to dominate other races, or to impose our own will on other parts of the British Empire, so we disclaim equally any conception of a selfish and insular "non-interventionism...
Page 371 - Committee of the Trades Union Congress, or other Kindred Organisations, in joint political or other action in harmony with the Party Constitution and Standing Orders.
Page 86 - 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 332 - First, the impartial justice meted out must involve no discrimination between those to whom we wish to be just and those to whom we do not wish to be just.
Page 395 - 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...