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Page 687 - If we in Britain are to escape from the decay of civilization itself, which the Japanese statesman foresees, we must ensure that what is presently to be built up is a new social order, based not on fighting, but on fraternity — not on the competitive struggle for the means of bare life, but on a deliberately planned cooperation in production and distribution for the benefit of all who participate by hand or by brain...
Page 122 - Whatever may be the advantages of "collective bargaining," it is not bargaining at all, in any just sense, unless it is voluntary on both sides. The same liberty which enables men to form unions, and through the union to enter into agreements with employers willing to agree, entitles other men to remain independent of the union, and other employers to agree with them to employ no man who owes any allegiance or obligation to the union. In the latter case, as in the former, the parties are entitled...
Page 556 - is between the delegation of power to make the law, which necessarily involves a discretion as to what it shall be, and conferring authority or discretion as to its execution, to be exercised under and in pursuance of the law. The first cannot be done ; to the latter no valid objection can be made.
Page 502 - If an employee who has previously incurred permanent partial disability through the loss of one hand, one arm, one foot, one leg, or one eye incurs permanent total disability through the loss of another member or organ, he shall be paid, in addition to the compensation for permanent partial disability provided in this section and after the cessation of the payments for the prescribed period of weeks, special additional compensation for the remainder of his life...
Page 116 - Therefore, we must insist in every instance that the parties come into each other's presence and there discuss the issues between them and not separately in places which have no communication with each other.
Page 515 - For securing improvement in the latter, it is essential that any proposals put forward should offer to workpeople the means of attaining improved conditions of employment and a higher standard of comfort generally, and involve the enlistment of their active and continuous cooperation in the promotion of industry.
Page 90 - That in case of national emergency the President is authorized to suspend provisions of law prohibiting more than eight hours labor in any one day of Persons engaged upon work covered by contracts with the United States: 'rovided further, That the wages of persons employed upon such contracts shall be computed on a basic day rate of eight hours...
Page 116 - Everybody on both sides has now got to transact business, and a settlement is never impossible when both sides want to do the square and right thing. Moreover, a settlement is always hard to avoid when the parties can be brought face to face.
Page 696 - The Labor party demands that the production of electricity on the necessary gigantic scale shall be made, from the start (with suitable arrangements for municipal cooperation in local distribution) a national enterprise, to be worked exclusively with the object of supplying the whole kingdom with the cheapest possible power, light and heat. But with railways and the generation of electricity in the hands of the public, it would be criminal folly to leave to the present one thousand five hundred colliery...
Page 691 - ... clause in all public contracts; and by explicitly recommending every local authority to adopt the same policy. But nothing is more dangerous to the standard of life or so destructive of those minimum conditions of healthy existence which must in the interests of the community be assured to every worker than any widespread or continued unemployment. It has always been a fundamental principle of the Labor Party...