What the Workers Want: A Study of British LaborHarcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920 - 518 עמודים |
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עמוד 402 - Act, the following regulations shall be observed (that is to say) : — (1) The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 1845, 1860, and 1869, shall be incorporated with this Act, except the provisions relating to access to the special Act, and except section one hundred and twenty-seven of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845...
עמוד 157 - Even upon the evidence already given, the present system of ownership and working in the coal industry stands condemned, and some other system must be substituted for it, either nationalization or a method of unification by national purchase and/or by joint control.
עמוד 422 - I recommend on the evidence before me that the principle of State ownership of the coal mines be accepted. III. I recommend that the scheme for local administration hereinafter set out, or any modification of it adopted by Parliament, be immediately set up with the aid of the Coal Controller's Department. and that Parliament be invited to pass legislation acquiring the coal mines for the State, after the scheme has been worked for three years from the date of this Report, paying fair and just compensation...
עמוד 403 - Act, and in construing those Acts for the purposes of this section the special Act shall be construed to mean this Act, and the promoters of the undertaking shall be construed to mean such managers, and land shall be construed to include any right over land.
עמוד 21 - Only within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of unyielding despair, can the soul's habitation henceforth be safely built.
עמוד 403 - Britain into districts, and shall in each district constitute a District Mining Council of ten members, half of which shall be appointed by the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. (2) The Mining Council may delegate to any District Mining Council or Pit Council, such of their powers under this Act as may conveniently be exercised locally, and the District Mining Council shall upon such delegation have and exercise within their district all the powers and duties of the Mining Council as may be delegated...
עמוד 292 - We workmen do not ask that we should be admitted to any share in what is essentially the employer's own business — that is, in those matters which do not concern us directly in the industry or employment in which we may be engaged.
עמוד 389 - The fundamental causes of Labour unrest are to be found rather in the growing determination of Labour to challenge the whole existing structure of capitalist industry than in any of the more special and smaller grievances which come to the surface at any particular time.
עמוד 372 - Therefore, what I should be looking forward to, I am certain, if I could have presumed to have been the adviser of the working classes, would be this : I should say to them ' Audacity is the thing for you.' Think out new ways ; think out new methods ; think out even new ways of dealing with old problems. Don't always be thinking of getting back to where you were before the war ; get a really new world...
עמוד 426 - Coal mining is our national key industry upon which: nearly all other industries depend. A cheap and adequate supply of coal is essential to the comfort of individuals and to the maintenance of the trade of the country. In this respect, and in the peculiar conditions of its working, the coal mining industry occupies a unique and exceptional place in our national life, and there is no other industry with which it can be compared.