Tom Mann's MemoirsLabour Publishing Company, 1923 - 334 páginas |
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... March I had put many questions to my friend Jeffries on Shakespeare , and he had been equal to them all . It occurred to me to try the April - fool trick on him ; so I made up a doggerel kind of question , and said I thought it occurred ...
... March I had put many questions to my friend Jeffries on Shakespeare , and he had been equal to them all . It occurred to me to try the April - fool trick on him ; so I made up a doggerel kind of question , and said I thought it occurred ...
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... speaking from the National Gallery side . Finally , at the close of the meeting , it was decided to march to Hyde Park , with a view to another meeting . On the way rioting took place , 59 IV THE FIGHT FOR AN EIGHT-HOUR.
... speaking from the National Gallery side . Finally , at the close of the meeting , it was decided to march to Hyde Park , with a view to another meeting . On the way rioting took place , 59 IV THE FIGHT FOR AN EIGHT-HOUR.
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... march in any direction , the utmost concern and caution were manifested . I was working at Peckham at the time . The local unemployed had announced a march during the week in which the riots took place . I remember that the works ...
... march in any direction , the utmost concern and caution were manifested . I was working at Peckham at the time . The local unemployed had announced a march during the week in which the riots took place . I remember that the works ...
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... pagandist effort , coupled with an earnest attempt to get something done for the unemployed , we organised a Church Parade on a Sunday morning , and announced we would march from the Quay Side to St. Nicholas ' Cathedral Church . I was 66.
... pagandist effort , coupled with an earnest attempt to get something done for the unemployed , we organised a Church Parade on a Sunday morning , and announced we would march from the Quay Side to St. Nicholas ' Cathedral Church . I was 66.
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... march to church . I had a small red flag easily handled , and while I was addressing the crowd , and stating what the arrangements were , describing the route we would take , and so on , I saw the Mayor , Mr. Benjamin Browne , of ...
... march to church . I had a small red flag easily handled , and while I was addressing the crowd , and stating what the arrangements were , describing the route we would take , and so on , I saw the Mayor , Mr. Benjamin Browne , of ...
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Página 129 - That the economical subjection of the man of labour to the monopoliser of the means of labour, that is the sources of life, lies at the bottom of servitude in all its forms, of all social misery, mental degradation and political dependence...
Página 26 - Under this head, therefore, may be enumerated all unwholesome occupations, severe labour and exposure to the seasons, extreme poverty, bad nursing of children, great towns, excesses of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epidemics, wars, plague, and famine.
Página 93 - The People's flag is deepest, red ; It shrouded oft our martyred dead ; And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold Their heart's blood dyed its every fold.
Página 26 - In the next period the population would be eighty-eight millions and the means of subsistence just equal to the support of half that number. And at the conclusion of the first century the population would be a hundred and seventy-six millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of fifty-five millions, leaving a population of a hundred and twenty-one millions totally unprovided for.
Página 26 - In the first twenty-five years the population ^otild be twenty-two millions, and the food being also doubled, the means of subsistence would be equal to this increase. In the next twenty-five years, the population would be forty-four millions, and the means of subsistence only equal to the support of thirtythree millions.
Página 93 - With heads uncovered, swear we all, To bear It onward till we fall ; Come dungeons dark, or gallows grim, This song shall be our parting hymn.
Página 99 - To inquire into the questions affecting the relations between employer and employed, the combinations of employers and of employed, and the conditions of labour, which have been raised during the recent trade disputes in the United Kingdom. And to report whether legislation can with advantage be directed to the remedy of any evils that may be disclosed, and, if so, in what manner.
Página 26 - Taking the whole earth, instead of this island, emigration would of course be excluded; and, supposing the present population equal to a thousand millions, the human species would increase as the numbers, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256; and subsistence as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In two centuries the population would be to the means of subsistence as 256 to 9; in three centuries as 4096 to 13, and in two thousand years the difference would be almost incalculable.
Página 154 - That all the Liberties of the People were lost by the coming in of William the Conqueror ; and that, ever since, the People of God had lived under tyranny and oppression worse than that of our Forefathers under the Egyptians. But now the time of deliverance was...
Página 155 - ... thereof to the poor and needy, and to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. That they intend not to meddle with any man's property, nor to break down any pales or enclosures...