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... parliamentary debates , reports , and statutes have been selected , in the first place , a few of the most important Acts which have been passed by the British Parliament since the Liberal Govern- ment came into power in 1905 , dealing ...
... parliamentary debates , reports , and statutes have been selected , in the first place , a few of the most important Acts which have been passed by the British Parliament since the Liberal Govern- ment came into power in 1905 , dealing ...
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... parliamentary records and commis- sion reports can begin to understand at what tremendous cost that industrial supremacy has been secured and upheld -a cost of veritable millions of human lives and of the physical and spiritual ...
... parliamentary records and commis- sion reports can begin to understand at what tremendous cost that industrial supremacy has been secured and upheld -a cost of veritable millions of human lives and of the physical and spiritual ...
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... parliamentary debate , to keep alive the Tory tradition of exalting the prestige of the landed aristocracy and the Anglican Church , and of proclaiming them as the bulwarks of Eng- lish liberty , he was moved by the same Zeitgeist which ...
... parliamentary debate , to keep alive the Tory tradition of exalting the prestige of the landed aristocracy and the Anglican Church , and of proclaiming them as the bulwarks of Eng- lish liberty , he was moved by the same Zeitgeist which ...
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... parliamentary session of 1905 the Conservative govern- ment of Mr. Balfour presented three important proposals for social legislation : a Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Bill , an Unem- ployed Workmen Bill , and a Workmen's Compensation ...
... parliamentary session of 1905 the Conservative govern- ment of Mr. Balfour presented three important proposals for social legislation : a Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Bill , an Unem- ployed Workmen Bill , and a Workmen's Compensation ...
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... in conclusion urged that the time was now ripe for great efforts on the part of trade unionists . They found capital , said the Parliamentary Committee , arrayed against the workers , organised as it had never been INTRODUCTORY NOTE 15.
... in conclusion urged that the time was now ripe for great efforts on the part of trade unionists . They found capital , said the Parliamentary Committee , arrayed against the workers , organised as it had never been INTRODUCTORY NOTE 15.
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Page 98 - An agreement or combination by two or more persons to do or procure to be done any act in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute between employers and workmen shall not be indictable as a conspiracy if such act committed by one person would not be punishable as a crime.
Page 100 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1. Uses violence to or intimidates such other person or his wife or children, or injures his property ; or, 2.
Page 86 - An act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute shall not be actionable on the ground only that it induces some other person to break a contract of employment or that it is an interference with the trade, business, or employment of some other person, or with the right of some other person to dispose of his capital or his labor as he wills.
Page 47 - If in any employment to which this Act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman. his employer shall, subject as herein-after mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act.
Page 48 - When the injury was caused by the personal negligence or wilful act of the employer, or of some person for whose act or default the employer is responsible, nothing in this act shall affect any civil liability of the employer, but in that case the workman may, at his option, either claim compensation under this act or take...
Page 535 - ... the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 68 - Provided that where by reason of the shortness of the time during which the workman has been in the employment of his employer, or the casual nature...
Page 408 - MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN, WE, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary supplies to defray Your Majesty's public expenses, and making an addition to the public revenue, have freely and voluntarily resolved to give and grant unto Your Majesty the several duties herein-after mentioned...
Page 88 - Nothing in this Act shall enable any court to entertain any legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements, namely, 1.
Page 516 - ... of a casual nature and who are employed otherwise than for the purpose of the employer's trade or business...