The New International Year Book: A Compendium of the World's Progress...Dodd, Mead, 1913 |
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Page 331 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Page 331 - These conditions can be changed and the interest of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, ithus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, ' A fair day's wages for a fair day's work,' we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ' Abolition of the wage system.
Page 331 - Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mislead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.
Page 290 - Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom, and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland.
Page 331 - It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capitalism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the everyday struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially we are forming the structure of the new society witbin the shell of the old.
Page 152 - His Majesty's Government agree that the export of opium from India to China shall cease in less than seven years if clear proof is given of the complete absence of production of native opium in China.
Page 194 - City had given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.
Page 326 - India, was made responsible to the secretary of state for India, a member of the British cabinet in London.
Page 158 - The total number of men employed in the coal mines of the United States in 1907 was 680,492, against 640,780 in 1906 and 626,035 in 1905.
Page 356 - No minor who is under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any gainful occupation during the hours that the public schools of the...