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... election tended quite naturally to limit its membership to the country gentry and to the newer industrial and commercial magnates ; and the counsels of these classes customarily prevailed in Commons ' debates . To tell the story of how ...
... election tended quite naturally to limit its membership to the country gentry and to the newer industrial and commercial magnates ; and the counsels of these classes customarily prevailed in Commons ' debates . To tell the story of how ...
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... election of 1906 , out of 50 Labour Representation candidates 29 were elected , as well as 11 members of Parliament in connexion with the miners ' associations , which were not then affiliated . Fourteen other workmen were elected ...
... election of 1906 , out of 50 Labour Representation candidates 29 were elected , as well as 11 members of Parliament in connexion with the miners ' associations , which were not then affiliated . Fourteen other workmen were elected ...
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... election since 1880 , if not since 1832. As early as May 19 , Sir Henry Campbell - Ban- nerman , in a speech before the Council of the National Liberal Federation at Newcastle - on - Tyne , had practically identified his position with ...
... election since 1880 , if not since 1832. As early as May 19 , Sir Henry Campbell - Ban- nerman , in a speech before the Council of the National Liberal Federation at Newcastle - on - Tyne , had practically identified his position with ...
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... election of 1906 showed 378 Liberals , 53 Labourites , and 83 Nationalists , a total coalition of 514 sup- porting the ministry , against 131 Conservatives and 25 Liberal Unionists , a total of 156 in opposition . Of the Labour members ...
... election of 1906 showed 378 Liberals , 53 Labourites , and 83 Nationalists , a total coalition of 514 sup- porting the ministry , against 131 Conservatives and 25 Liberal Unionists , a total of 156 in opposition . Of the Labour members ...
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... elections of 1910- the first on the question of the Budget , and the second on that of restricting the powers of the House of Lords - reduced the Liberal majority in the Commons to such a degree that the ministry became dependent upon ...
... elections of 1910- the first on the question of the Budget , and the second on that of restricting the powers of the House of Lords - reduced the Liberal majority in the Commons to such a degree that the ministry became dependent upon ...
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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...