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George Lansbury, British Socialist and former member of Parliament, spoke at a joint meeting of the Harvard and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs at Brattle Hall yesterday. He told of the labor situation in England, as it has arisen from the recent industrial uprising in Dublin, of the immanence of public ownership of railways and coal mines in the United Kingdom, of the problem of unemployment, and of the Woman Suffrage movement...
...Lansbury is a Socialist of the Webb school, having been actively engaged in politics for the past thirty years. He recently resigned his seat in Parliament, where he was known as the "First Radical," because of the non-aggressive attitude of the Labor Party toward Woman Suffrage. During his stay here Mr. Lansbury has toured many cities of the eastern and middle western states addressing labor unions and Socialist audiences...
George Lansbury, recently a labor member of Parliament, but who resigned his seat there because of the non-aggressiveness of the Labor Party in its attitude toward Woman Suffrage, will lecture on "Labor and Social Discontent in England" in Brattle Hall tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. This lecture is being held under the joint auspices of the Harvard, and Radcliffe Socialist Clubs and the public will be admitted free...
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George Lansbury, Labor Member of Parliament, will lecture here under the auspices of the Socialist Club on the afternoon of Thursday, January 15. He has been in active political life for 30 years and is known as the first active Radical. Soon after his entrance into the political field, he became a Socialist, and since 1891 has been a Poor Law Guardian. He has been a force in legislation for the poor, establishing the first Poor Law Colony, and being also influential in establishing the first Labor Colony for the unemployed, which is under public control. He has written many...