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... material effects of the war upon the commercial and industrial system upon which our civilisation has been based . Still less can we estimate the results of the inner revolution of thought and feeling which has accom- panied these material ...
... material effects of the war upon the commercial and industrial system upon which our civilisation has been based . Still less can we estimate the results of the inner revolution of thought and feeling which has accom- panied these material ...
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... material grievances touching hours of labour , rates of wages , conditions of employment . This misapprehension rests upon a too narrow definition of the term " Labour . " On the lips of the earlier propagandists the word was used to ...
... material grievances touching hours of labour , rates of wages , conditions of employment . This misapprehension rests upon a too narrow definition of the term " Labour . " On the lips of the earlier propagandists the word was used to ...
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... materials of industry . More than the great key industries and vital services have come under con- trol ; and we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . In the field of national finance ...
... materials of industry . More than the great key industries and vital services have come under con- trol ; and we do not mean to loosen the popular grip upon them , but on the contrary to strengthen it . In the field of national finance ...
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... material reconstruction will present themselves for solution immediately peace is declared . These problems will not be confined to any one nation , but will be international in char- acter , scope , and effect ; and , if they are to be ...
... material reconstruction will present themselves for solution immediately peace is declared . These problems will not be confined to any one nation , but will be international in char- acter , scope , and effect ; and , if they are to be ...
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... material . If there is a return to the old competitive system of armaments it will lead to the inevitable issue a world war even more terrible and destruc- ' tive than the present war . There can be no question of economic domination ...
... material . If there is a return to the old competitive system of armaments it will lead to the inevitable issue a world war even more terrible and destruc- ' tive than the present war . There can be no question of economic domination ...
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aggression aims Allied Alsace Alsace-Lorraine ARTHUR HENDERSON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY B. W. HUEBSCH 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 employment ence enforce equality Excess Profits Tax factory fighting forces freedom future German Government guarantee hand hostilities ideals Imperial individual Inter-Allied Conference interests LABADIE COLLECTION 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 United Kingdom victory wage-earners wage-slavery wages whole workers world peace
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Page 44 - 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 4 - These things shall be, — a loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.
Page 119 - 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 102 - 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 4 - New arts shall bloom of loftier mould, And mightier music thrill the skies, And every life shall be a song When all the earth is paradise.
Page 113 - The Four Pillars of the House that we propose to erect, resting upon the common foundation of the Democratic control of society in all its activities, may be termed, respectively : (a) The Universal Enforcement of the National Minimum ; (6) The Democratic Control of Industry; (c) The Revolution in National Finance; and (d) The Surplus Wealth for the Common Good.
Page 112 - ... a deliberately planned cooperation in production and distribution for the benefit of all who participate by hand or by brain; not on the utmost possible inequality of riches, but on a systematic approach towards a healthy equality of material circumstances for every person born into the world; not on an enforced dominion over subject nations, subject races, subject colonies, subject classes, or a subject sex, but, in industry as well as in government, on that equal freedom, that general consciousness...
Page 109 - ... 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 those principles honestly and unreservedly to all questions to be dealt with at any official peace conference.
Page 64 - 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 126 - 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...