Tom Mann's MemoirsLabour Publishing Company, 1923 - 334 páginas |
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... regards the respective principles championed by those to whom I refer in these Memoirs . My purpose in directing attention to the personalities I mention is to enable the reader to size up the situation at the date referred to . One of ...
... regards the respective principles championed by those to whom I refer in these Memoirs . My purpose in directing attention to the personalities I mention is to enable the reader to size up the situation at the date referred to . One of ...
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... regards America during the eighteenth century , seemed to give strong support to the theory . Although the author's endeavours to apply the principle to various countries and to show that everywhere population tended to increase in a ...
... regards America during the eighteenth century , seemed to give strong support to the theory . Although the author's endeavours to apply the principle to various countries and to show that everywhere population tended to increase in a ...
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... regard to him was that he was profoundly convinced that his judgment was right , that situations arose which necessitated prompt and decisive action , and that he could not endure to wait several days before the committee met . Anyway ...
... regard to him was that he was profoundly convinced that his judgment was right , that situations arose which necessitated prompt and decisive action , and that he could not endure to wait several days before the committee met . Anyway ...
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... regards food , see what Thorold Rogers the economist said : Fortunately for the English people , as I have frequently stated , their habit , even under the adverse circumstances of their existence and the uncleanly ways of their life ...
... regards food , see what Thorold Rogers the economist said : Fortunately for the English people , as I have frequently stated , their habit , even under the adverse circumstances of their existence and the uncleanly ways of their life ...
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... regard to this subject . But that which weakened my ardour in this direc- tion was the recognition that however widely food reform might be diffused , it would never prove a cure for the economic evils I deplored . The fact was , I had ...
... regard to this subject . But that which weakened my ardour in this direc- tion was the recognition that however widely food reform might be diffused , it would never prove a cure for the economic evils I deplored . The fact was , I had ...
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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...