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Page 171 - All candidates receiving financial assistance must pledge themselves to support the principle of collective ownership and control of all the means of production and distribution, and the Labour programme as agreed upon from time to time by the Congress.
Page 9 - ... country, and a more equal division of the daily products of industry between Capital and Labour, so that it may become possible for all to enjoy a fair share of material comfort and intellectual culture, possible for all to lead a dignified life, and less difficult for all to lead a good life...
Page 54 - ... representatives,' there must be a revolution to alter the present state of things. The people who were out of work, he continued, did not want relief, but justice. From whom should they get justice? From such as the Duke of Westminister and his class, or the capitalists in the House of Commons and their class?
Page 83 - ... society some change, as you were told by the witness Condon, who is compelled to accept starvation wages, and who cannot in his trade get work for more than five months out of the twelve. We are not responsible for the riots ; it is Society that is responsible, and instead of the Attorney General drawing up indictments against us he should be drawing up indictments against Society, which is responsible for neglecting the means at its command. I have not one single word of regret to utter for...
Page 171 - all candidates receiving financial assistance must pledge themselves to support the labour programme as agreed upon...
Page 57 - I have, but if you would consult the working classes who think on political and social subjects and who have attended large mass meetings in Hyde Park, you would find, on investigation, that there is a class of men who make it a practice, on occasions of political demonstrations, to laugh and jeer, from their Club windows, at the poverty of what they term "the great unwashed...
Page 175 - This expressed the view that the claims of Labour in Parliament should be asserted irrespective of the convenience of any political Party ; "and to secure this it is necessary that the Labour Members in the House of Commons should be unconnected with either the Liberal or Tory Party and should sit in opposition to any Government until such time as they are strong enough to form a Labour Cabinet.
Page 52 - members in the House of Commons. " Our meeting at the Nelson Column was satisfactorily conducted. Quietness and order prevailed. After speaking, I called on several whom I recognised in the crowd, and resolutions were submitted to about 20,000 persons, for by this time the crowd had considerably augmented. No damage was done. There was no conflict with the police — we avoided that, as Superintendent Dunlap admits. When the Fair Traders came, I climbed up the balustrade and acted as chairman of...
Page 58 - ... to jeer at the misery their own greed has created, and yet at elections these very men crave votes of those who previously had received their sneers. The crowd were not in a temper to stand even mere laughing, and they were not disposed to respond to contemptuous jeers by a smile. And what was the result ? Stonethrowing commenced. And that was the result of the stupid, ungentlemanly, criminal conduct of the Carlton Club members. I did my best to repress the stonethrowing, instead of inciting...
Page 80 - ... by peaceful demands a better state of things should be brought about. Our motives have been aspersed by journalists, who are paid to traduce us. We have been charged with being notoriety-hunters, with being men anxious for our own advancement and self interest. That is not the case. Since I was 16 years of age I have done everything in my power to benefit the workers in a straightforward way. I have deprived myself, as many of my class have done, of hundreds of meals on purpose to buy books and...