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