The Vision for which We Fought: A Study in Reconstruction, Volume 120Macmillan, 1919 - 197 pages |
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Page 45 - It may be desirable to state here our considered opinion that an essential condition of securing a permanent improvement in the relations between employers and employed is that there should be adequate organisation on the part of both employers and workpeople.
Page 179 - We need to beware of patchwork. The view of the Labor party is that what has to be reconstructed after the war is not this or that government department, or this or that piece of social machinery; but, so far as Britain is concerned, society itself.
Page 48 - Labor. For the purpose of mobilizing the labor supply with a view to its rapid and effective distribution, a permanent list of the number of skilled and other workers available in different parts of the nation shall be kept on file by the Department of Labor, the information to be constantly furnished: 1.
Page 88 - ... when in the opinion of the board of directors of the corporation such railroads or railways are unable to obtain funds upon reasonable terms through banking channels or from the general public and the corporation will be adequately secured...
Page 48 - By the trade unions. 2. By State employment bureaus and Federal agencies of like character. 3. By the managers and operators of industrial establishments throughout the country. These agencies shall be given opportunity to aid in the distribution of labor as necessity demands. Custom of Localities In fixing wages, hours, and conditions of labor, regard should always be had to the labor standards, wage scales, and other conditions prevailing in the localities affected. The Living Wage 1.
Page 147 - Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains.
Page 195 - Much of the constructive philanthropy of to-day must deal directly with the child, the improvement of his conditions being the direct objective. Those problems which affect children in an indirect way, whether in the field of remedial or preventive philanthropy, are not treated.
Page 48 - In fixing wages, hours and conditions of labor, regard should always be had to the labor standards, wage scales and other conditions prevailing in the localities affected. The Living Wage. 1. The right of all workers, including common laborers, to a living wage is hereby declared. 2. In fixing wages, minimum rates of pay shall be established which will insure the subsistence of the worker and his family in health and reasonable comfort.
Page 179 - ... profiteering" and wage slavery ; with its glorification of the unhampered struggle for the means of life and its hypocritical pretence of the "survival of the fittest...
Page 43 - Machinery which will provide for the immediate and equitable adjustment of disputes in accordance with principles to be agreed upon between labor and capital and without stoppage of work. Such machinery would deal with demands concerning wages, hours, shop conditions, etc. 3. Machinery for safeguarding conditions of labor in the production of war essentials. This to include industrial hygiene, safety, women and child labor, etc.