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Thus spoke James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...prohibition forces in America might well take the words of Ramsay MacDonald upon the subject as a creed. He characterizes it as a great effort to keep people decent and to enable men and women to do their duty to their families and spend money upon necessities...
Laborite John R. Clynes, generalissimo of the Labor party in the absence of onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald in the U. S.: "I rise to protest that this bill would prevent workers on strike from doing anything to make their strike a success. . . . Why this Government solicitude for 'Blacklegs' ["Scabs"]? . . . This bill would make it illegal to even make faces at a 'Blackleg...
...Expressed sincere relief at news that onetime Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now visiting the U. S. (TIME, April 18), was rapidly recovering at Philadelphia from his attack of tonsilitis (TIME, Jan. 25), while his daughter, Ishbel Macdonald, pinch-spoke? for her father before various gatherings, which he had promised to address...
...Ramsay Macdonald, onetime Labor Premier, now visiting the U. S.: "It is with emotion that I behold the empty grave where lie our ruined industries...