Tom Mann's MemoirsLabour Publishing Company, 1923 - 334 páginas |
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Página 27
... effective answer to Malthus . I was greatly interested in the book . It enabled me to see more clearly the vastness of the social problem , to realise that every country was confronted with it , and the capable and comprehensive ...
... effective answer to Malthus . I was greatly interested in the book . It enabled me to see more clearly the vastness of the social problem , to realise that every country was confronted with it , and the capable and comprehensive ...
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... effective and business - like way of putting a case . He looked well on a platform . He always wore a serge suit , a white shirt , a black tie , and a bowler hat . He looked the engineer all over , and was very easily 39.
... effective and business - like way of putting a case . He looked well on a platform . He always wore a serge suit , a white shirt , a black tie , and a bowler hat . He looked the engineer all over , and was very easily 39.
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... effective propagandist . He had a large family , and frequently had long spells out of work , but this never damped his ardour . In work or not , Jack was at his post taking his turn in any part of London , outdoors or in . He knew the ...
... effective propagandist . He had a large family , and frequently had long spells out of work , but this never damped his ardour . In work or not , Jack was at his post taking his turn in any part of London , outdoors or in . He knew the ...
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... effectively . In recent years Jem's hearing has proved defective , and it has been a serious barrier to his participation in propagandist work , but he still carries on the secretaryship of his trade union . The Amalgamated Society of ...
... effectively . In recent years Jem's hearing has proved defective , and it has been a serious barrier to his participation in propagandist work , but he still carries on the secretaryship of his trade union . The Amalgamated Society of ...
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... effective propaganda work . The chief importance was attached to open - air meetings , and especially to the Sunday meetings . I first met William Morris in the summer of 1885. The lecture lists were regularly printed for S.D.F. ...
... effective propaganda work . The chief importance was attached to open - air meetings , and especially to the Sunday meetings . I first met William Morris in the summer of 1885. The lecture lists were regularly printed for S.D.F. ...
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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...