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... women and the children they have left behind - that never again will we meet these men in the old friendly way . The 6,000 murdered men who lie at the bottom of the sea , with their sightless eyes staring at us in our dreams , are a ...
... women and the children they have left behind - that never again will we meet these men in the old friendly way . The 6,000 murdered men who lie at the bottom of the sea , with their sightless eyes staring at us in our dreams , are a ...
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... women voted under a franchise given them by the very elements which years before sent him , as he phrased it , " out into the wilderness . " scribed to the soviet formula of " peace without annexations 33 THE I L P AND THE LEFT.
... women voted under a franchise given them by the very elements which years before sent him , as he phrased it , " out into the wilderness . " scribed to the soviet formula of " peace without annexations 33 THE I L P AND THE LEFT.
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... women . There were some railway workers pres- ent , but the men were chiefly miners . At these meetings every refer- ence to an early settlement of the war by negotiation , every reference to the building up of the International at the ...
... women . There were some railway workers pres- ent , but the men were chiefly miners . At these meetings every refer- ence to an early settlement of the war by negotiation , every reference to the building up of the International at the ...
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... women and children standing in queues have added to it . But probably the chief cause of the change which has taken place in the minds of our people has been that they have come to find out through recent revelations in Russia that to a ...
... women and children standing in queues have added to it . But probably the chief cause of the change which has taken place in the minds of our people has been that they have come to find out through recent revelations in Russia that to a ...
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... women - to the common people of the nation . All but simultaneously came the awakening as we have seen of the older , larger , labor body in the industrial sphere- the Trades Union Congress ; and at each point the Labour Party had been ...
... women - to the common people of the nation . All but simultaneously came the awakening as we have seen of the older , larger , labor body in the industrial sphere- the Trades Union Congress ; and at each point the Labour Party had been ...
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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...