Word: laborators
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which is not currently productive. No such sums are spent, for example, in New York's cloak and suit hagglery...
...Labor party?" shouted Mr. Churchill, visibly surprised, yet formulating on the instant though incoherently the question that was to trap the cripple...
...Labor party certainly did not subscribe to the Balfour Note," shouted back Mr. Snowden, "and it should hold itself open, if circumstances arise, to repudiate the conditions of that note...
Seemingly beside himself, Mr. Snowden spoke even more rashly: "Does Mr. Churchill then maintain that an agreement which is made by a government supported by a party [Conservative] which happens to have a temporary majority in the House of Commons, commits every other party [Labor and Liberal] in the State to the confirmation and acceptance of that agreement in future? If that is to be so, it is a doctrine to which I cannot subscribe...
...spite of the vicissitudes of political fortune." Anxious hours in conference with prominent Laborites had convinced Leader MacDonald that as leader of the party there was but one thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party be returned to power they would not preserve "England's word as good as her bond!" Sir Austen Chamberlain (with a Victorian shudder): "That is the only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that...