Word: labouring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into revolt at last. They announce that they are amenable to government partnership in business, but beg to register a vote in favour of what they call industrial self government. In other words, now that the machinery of regimentation is being set up for the joint control of capital, labour, and the consumer, capital is in favour of it if labour and the consumer are withdrawn from the helm, and the industrialists are left to their own dainty devices...
What will happen is that the Labour leaders will be forced either to challenge the capitalist system, or to be shown up for what they are: radishes, red on the outside and white within. England cannot stand the burden of more social legislation, but the party if it has a majority, cannot hesitate to demand it. As with Labour governments of the near past, all the pressure from the Treasury will be exerted on them to slash what relief provisions are now outstanding; but the party will not dare to follow their commands again. "Gradualism in reverse gear"--that...
...British Labour Party is returning to 1931 strength and probably also to a repetition of the 1931 catastrophe. Its gains in the recent by-elections have been impressive; it has won 180 seats, lost 7, as against the Conservative's showing of 9 won, 112 lost, and the Liberals's gain of 5 and loss of 33. But if one can believe the opinion of John Strachey, once a confidant of the higher-ups in the Labour Party, this success at the polls will bring surprise not unmingled with consternation to the Party leaders. And this apparent paradox is easily...
...declaration of faith in Democracy rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions of the left wing who plumped for a frontal attack and a use of force if thwarted in legislative demands. If Sir Stafford Cripps can be considered typical of present, Labour party opinion, the only slogan to which it will have any right will be "On to Bigger and Better Defeats." Only a political miracle can save the party from collapse if it breaks down before the issue once more; only a series of unexpectedly crude tactics by the Conservatives will...
...more critical republic, we would see talk of "cooperation between capital and labour" for what it is, a clumsy and disingenuous evasion of the problems which modern industrial development has evolved. Between the interests of capital, as it is organized today, and those of the workmen in its employ there is no fundamental community. Our economy is founded on price, and the role of the producer is, even under normal conditions, to keep wages as low as the traffic will bear, while the aim of the worker is to push them as high as he can. Even a small depression...