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...Liberals and such noted Laborites as ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, Sidney Webb, William Adamson, J. H. Thomas, voted with the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament's Week: Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...Solicitor General, he had successfully defended the Adamson 8-Hour-Day-Law for the railways, thus preventing a strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Broken Health | 8/18/1924 | See Source »

...Glass Workers' Union, the Irish Free State. As a member of the Judiciary Committee of the House in the 62nd Congress, he sponsored the 'Clayton Act which declared that labor unions could not be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. As Solicitor General he upheld the Adamson Eight-Hour Law for railroad employes and prosecuted several anti-trust cases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: This Davis | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...Standing Committee of the House approved the Adamson Bill which enfranchises women of 21 years of age. At present only women over the age of 30 can vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Parliament's Week: Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...deputation, appointed by the British Labor Party, is in the Ruhr investigating conditions. The delegates, all M. P.'s, are Thomas Shaw, Charles R. Buxton, William Adamson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: The Ruhr from London | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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