Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Treasuryship Threatened. Since 1900, when the National Labor-Party was founded, James Ramsay Macdonald has repeatedly been elected its treasurer. But, last week, at a party conference in Leicester, opponents of Mr. Macdonald, defiant as mice when the cat is away, stampeded through a vote 312 to 118 striking his name from the roll of nominees for treasurer. The stroke was significant, revealed sharply that divergence between Labor radicals and Labor conservatives which Mr. Macdonald has many times prevented from becoming a party split by the force of his political generalship...
...action by the People under the guidance of the State. This gospel of action, dynamic, propulsive, was expounded last week by Signor Benito Mussolini in a great document designed as the ground plan on which the new social order must arise. Fascists hailed the proclamation as their Charter of Labor, as the first magna charta guaranteeing to a people not rights but duties...
Substitute "work" for "duties" and the meaning gradually unfolds. Man does not want to labor; but, since he must, it is a kind of boon to guarantee him the certainty of work...
...Charter of Labor, promulgated last week on the "Putrid Liberty" hypothesis, lays down the following general principles which will be elaborated by legislation into a society system...
...Labor is declared "a social duty," and property "accomplishes a necessary social function." Whatever appertains to either is placed "under the guardianship of the State...