Word: laboritis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union speaker for this week, as announced, is Albert Mansbridge, founder of the British Workers Educational Association, who will talk on the present labor conditions in England, at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening...
...Mansbridge holds honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester, and has for years been closely identified with the movement to improve the position of Labor. He is on his way to California to give a series of lectures there, and is making a special trip to Cambridge for this talk...
...conference scored racial discrimination, called for the abolition of compulsory military training in land grant institutions, exhibited sentiment calling for personal non-participation in future war of any sort, advocated a free pulpit in the expression of opinion on labor matters attacked Greek Letter Societies, voted for the United States entry into the League of Nations and the World Court, listened to villifications of contemporary religious education, listened to reports attacking the American Defense Society the National Security League, and the Klan, and more astonishing still, voted to withdraw support from foreign missions so that the money might be used...
...sitting down, which must legally accompany such parliamentary "rising." Having no hat within reach Mr. Maclean was nonplused until a fellow member hastily improvised a paper cockade out of a copy of the Times and clapped it on his head. Thenceforward the "ginger group" of the Labor Party harassed the Government at every turn, until Premier Baldwin at length forced the matter to a vote. Then the Laborites, led by the "fire-eating" J. R. Clynes and J. H. Thomas, their "balance-wheel," in the absence of Ramsay Macdonald,* solemnly marched from the hall in protest...
...presented to the House during February. . . . The policy of the present Government with respect to Mosul is merely to carry out the policy of Lord Curzon, who signed the Treaty of Lausanne, upon which the adjudication of the League Council is based; and that of Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, whose Labor Government ratified the Treaty. . . . Since we have accepted a mandate over the Kingdom of Irak [containing Mosul] from the League, we are pledged to carry it out. If we weaken the League by not doing so, we shall regret that weakening when the League is called upon in future...