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...Revolutionary changes in housing, social security, public health, monopoly control, and education will result from the election of a Labour Government in Britain," declared Herman Finer, visiting lecturer on Government, in an interview with the SERVICE NEWS yesterday...
Shelley stated four fundamental propositions: 1) "That the majority of the people of England are destitute and miserable, ill-clothed, ill-fed, ill-educated. 2) That the cause of this misery is the unequal distribution which . . . has been made of the products of their labour. 3) That the cause of that cause is a defect in the government. 4) That every enlightened and honourable person ought to excite them [the common people] ... to the temperate but irresistible vindication of their rights...
...This Fabian Society seemed just what I wanted. . . . We began by imposing on the Liberal Party ... a socialist program. . . . We . . . founded the London School of Economics, which has produced Beveridge; added The New Statesman to the weekly press; established an independent labour party...
...Ministry of Labour last week announced that 12,000,000 man-hours had been lost in 1,281 work stoppages in 1942, an increase from 8,800,000 man-hours lost in 1,241 stoppages in 1941. This seemed serious, but by no means scandalous, to a Great Britain immensely more industrialized and speeded up in its fourth year of war. Britons, in fact, have long expressed surprise that many a U.S. citizen and much of the U.S. press blow their tops at the number of U.S. strikes...
Britons pointed out that the 12.000,000 lost man-hours represented just one-fiftieth of 1% of total man-hours worked, or one half-hour's work lost per worker during the year. Said a Labour Ministry spokesman: "Though this proportion is infinitesimally small, it is still looked on most seriously as it is equivalent to 5,000 workers working full time. While making no optimistic forecasts for a reduction in 1943, the present publicity is part of a campaign started by the Ministry to reduce losses as far as possible...