Word: proletarianism
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These acts the British Parliament passed in the decade after the War. They compel the toiling proletarian to buy insurance. If male and between the ages of 21 and 65, he pays for it at the rate of seven pence per week, this being deducted from his wage. His employer is forced to pay in eight pence and the state adds seven and ha'pence more, making a total of 22˝ pence per week, or 45?...
...week, though his factory will only hold 50. Half the men work Monday through Wednesday, draw their dole the rest of the week. Meanwhile the other half have drawn their dole for three days, work Thursday through Saturday. So well does this half-loaf, half-work system please the proletarian that when he does work he is willing to accept a slightly lower daily wage than if forced to work regularly, and this pleases the manufacturer. There are also cases of deliberate collusion: a man works on the sly and wages are "slipped" to him, but he draws the dole...
...British Labor M. P.?such as famed Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson?who visits the U. S., recoils in horror at the sight of unemployed apple-sellers, denounces the heartless degradation and the public shame, thanks God that the British proletarian can hold up his head and proudly take his "benefits," instead of cringing and smirking like a beggar at some sour-faced old lady who may buy an apple or two tangerines...
...Cobb, other stars. Retarded by the 1923 earthquake, Japanese baseball has since progressed rapidly, boosted chiefly by Professor Abe, organizer of the Proletarian Party (Shakai Minshuto) and by the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun.* Next October Herbert Hunter will again tour Japan...
...leaders in Bombay took the line last week that "Gandhi betrayed the proletariat by his pact with Irwin!" It is true that Mr. Gandhi arranged the release of his own non-violent demonstrators first; but he continued last week to plead with the British for release of even violent, proletarian agitators. This, to the Communists, was no excuse. They greeted the little brown man in Bombay with roars of "Down with Gandhi! Down with his Nationalist Party! Down with British Imperialism...