A History of Trade Unionism in Australia

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Macmillan & Company Limited, 1921 - 226 стор.

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Сторінка 157 - The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. 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.
Сторінка 157 - 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, thus making an injury to one an injury to all. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the Wage System.
Сторінка 58 - The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful so as to render any member of such trade union liable to criminal prosecution for conspiracy or otherwise.
Сторінка 157 - The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allows one set of workers to be pitted against another set of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars.
Сторінка 157 - 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.
Сторінка 105 - Local government and decentralisation; extension of the principles of the Government as an employer, through the medium of local self-governing bodies; and the abolition of our present unjust and injurious method of raising municipal revenue by the taxation of improvements effected by labour.
Сторінка 105 - The recognition in our legislative enactments of the natural and inalienable rights of the whole community to the land — upon which all must live and from which by labour all wealth is produced — by the taxation of that value which accrues to the land from the presence and needs of the community, irrespective of improvements effected by human exertion...
Сторінка 110 - I also pledge myself, if returned to Parliament, on all occasions to do my utmost to ensure the carrying out of the principles embodied in the...
Сторінка 203 - Council shall meet at such time and place as may from time to time be directed by the Council.
Сторінка 64 - Congress that a simple yet sovereign remedy which will raise wages, increase and give remunerative employment, abolish poverty, extirpate pauperism, lessen crime, elevate moral tastes and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to a yet nobler height, is to abolish all taxation save that on land values.

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