Word: labourers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good clerks nor Mr. Chase's good teachers have or can have any answers or teaching on our conspicuous social failures, such as war and depression. The general inadequacy of all the teaching yet offered to the world on such subjects illustrates painfully how much vigour and originality and labour must be brought to bear...
...will have to state its "philosophy" with greater coherence before that belief can have any practical consequences. Belief in the New Deal, so far as it has been disclosed to us, may mean any number of undirected and unrelated things. It may mean aimless activism, or sentimental sympathy with labour, or sentimental dislike of the rich, or a simple and natural urge to have prosperity once more with us. It may be joined, as it is often joined by men and women outside the colleges, with a pious hope that the President will save our present economic system over...
That disease, despite the magic incantations of Senator Wagner and the Industrial Labour Board, is approaching crisis. Strikes and lockouts are symptoms of it which only the "ignorant and uninformed" can watch untroubled. The Yale branch of the National Student League may have been rash, although I do not think so; they may have risked their academic futures too recklessly, although we must respect them for doing...
Only England remains to enact the final tragedy of a trusting proletariat; the Labour Party is all that remains of the vast labor movement of the early twentieth century. The murder of an already senile Labour Party is perhaps not far off. Recent municipal elections, good indicators, have been strongly Labour. Predictions of a Labour victory in the next general election are heard more frequently. If Labour should finally get a working majority and really attempt something, there is the House of Lords to stop it, produce a stalemate. The King would piously call for Nation before Party, allegiance...
...world for the preservation of Democracy; elsewhere it was in ruins. And it was the sacred mission of the Conservative Party to save Great Britain at all costs from a proletarian dictatorship. Disregarding the obvious point that at the present this shot is aimed at a dummy, since the Labour Party officially adopted the same plank for its platform, one wonders whether or not the Tories might not at some later date feel themselves forced into the doubtlessly uncomfortable position of having to meet the menace of a Labour will-to-power with a "National" Dictatorship of their own. Would...