Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, British Labor organs flayed the Conservative Government far more shrilly than this, and Conservative newspapers sounded sonorous defensive notes. But Lord Reading's Chronicle seemed to have pitched its editorial authentically in the middle register...
These words, though blatant, were important, and vitally significant. They meant that the British Conservative Party expects to win again by telling John Bull and his women that the Labor Party (Socialist) is a pack of "Reds." In 1924 the "Red" stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike...
...country has a right to ask them before the election whether, if they hold it, they will put the Socialists in office. The Labor [Socialist] Party still is divided, undisciplined and weakly led, so that the strength of the extremists [communists] within their ranks makes them dangerous...
...polishing off the Liberals, Orator Baldwin popped an epigram: "The Labor creed is Socialism with the courage of its convictions, but modern Liberalism is Socialism without even the courage of its conviction...
...members of our party, I know, feel it ought to be extended rapidly. But it is not wise in a democracy to go too far in front of public opinion. The British public is slow to make up its mind, but it is thinking hard. . . . Today even Labor wants to restrict the effect of unfair competition from abroad. Only the Liberals would repeal the Safeguarding Act entirely. The Government is ready to facilitate safeguarding if individual industries prove the necessity of their being protected...