British Social Politics: Materials Illustrating Contemporary State Action for the Solution of Social Problems |
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... taken a new form . Gradually the working classes , whom the Industrial Revolution called into being , came to share Babœuf's opinion and to complain that they suffered from class privileges infinitely more oppressive than any of those ...
... taken a new form . Gradually the working classes , whom the Industrial Revolution called into being , came to share Babœuf's opinion and to complain that they suffered from class privileges infinitely more oppressive than any of those ...
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... taken to restore to workmen the right of effective combination of which they have been deprived by recent decisions of the courts . " And the Liberal leader referred to the " deplorable spectacle " when the Trade Unions and Trade ...
... taken to restore to workmen the right of effective combination of which they have been deprived by recent decisions of the courts . " And the Liberal leader referred to the " deplorable spectacle " when the Trade Unions and Trade ...
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... taken under the Em- ployers ' Liability Act , medical evidence is taken , but it is not com- petent to bring a medical referee into court ; but if they are taken under the Workmen's Compensation Act , after hearing the medical evidence ...
... taken under the Em- ployers ' Liability Act , medical evidence is taken , but it is not com- petent to bring a medical referee into court ; but if they are taken under the Workmen's Compensation Act , after hearing the medical evidence ...
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... taken a wise and , I am bound to say , a courageous course in bringing in the Bill in the form he has done . I may as- sure him that , so far as I am concerned , and so far as my friends on this side of the House are concerned , we will ...
... taken a wise and , I am bound to say , a courageous course in bringing in the Bill in the form he has done . I may as- sure him that , so far as I am concerned , and so far as my friends on this side of the House are concerned , we will ...
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... taken place , with the result of an increase in the number of accidents , then he for one was glad that means were provided for compensation . If the House reduced the close period , as it had been called , to seven days , he thought ...
... taken place , with the result of an increase in the number of accidents , then he for one was glad that means were provided for compensation . If the House reduced the close period , as it had been called , to seven days , he thought ...
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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...