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George Lansbury, former labor member of the House of Commons will speak on "Labor and Social Discontent in Brattle Hall this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture is being held under the joint auspices of the Harvard and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs and will be open to the public. Brattle Hall has been engaged for the meeting since the rules of the University prohibit the admission of Radcliffe to lectures held under the auspices of student organizations...
...Lansbury is a Socialist of the Webb school, having been actively engaged in politics for the past thirty years. He recently resigned his seat in Parliament, where he was known as the "First Radical," because of the non-aggressive attitude of the Labor Party toward Woman Suffrage. During his stay here Mr. Lansbury has toured many cities of the eastern and middle western states addressing labor unions and Socialist audiences...
George Lansbury, recently a labor member of Parliament, but who resigned his seat there because of the non-aggressiveness of the Labor Party in its attitude toward Woman Suffrage, will lecture on "Labor and Social Discontent in England" in Brattle Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is being held under the joint auspices of the Harvard, and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs and the public will be admitted free...
George Lansbury, Labor Member of Parliament, will lecture here under the auspices of the Socialist Club on the afternoon of Thursday, January 15. He has been in active political life for 30 years and is known as the first active Radical. Soon after his entrance into the political field, he became a Socialist, and since 1891 has been a Poor Law Guardian. He has been a force in legislation for the poor, establishing the first Poor Law Colony, and being also influential in establishing the first Labor Colony for the unemployed, which is under public control. He has written many...
...lower prices, causes the factories to go on short time and to shut down. There is a general fall in prices and profits, and a cumulation of depression that discourages the businessmen. The depression reacts in the good effect of reduction in costs and an increased efficiency of labor...