Industry and PoliticsMacmillan and Company, limited, 1927 - 337 pages |
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achieved advantage agriculture amalgamation amount application arbitration benefit Board Britain British Empire British industry capital capitalist cartels cent co-partnership coal Committee Company consideration Corn Law cost of production depression difficulties direction Dominions economic unit efficiency electricity employers endeavour engineering existing export trade fact factors firm fuel technology future Germany going Government Guild Socialism idea Imperial Chemical Industries important improvement increase industrial disputes industrial warfare interest labour Labour Party land League of Nations machinery manufacture markets ment methods million Mond Mond Nickel Company operation organisation output party peace period plant population position practice present problem profit-sharing profits progress prosperity question realise reduction result Roundsman system scheme shareholders Socialism Socialist Speenhamland system steel taxation tion to-day Trade Union unemployed unemployment unemployment benefit wages whole Winston Churchill workers workmen
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Page 129 - Lines of Steam or other Ships, Railways, Canals, Telegraphs, and other Works and Undertakings connecting the Province with any other or others of the Provinces, or extending beyond the Limits of the Province.
Page 130 - Such works as, although wholly situate within the Province, are before or after their execution declared by the Parliament of Canada to be for the general advantage of Canada or for the advantage of two or more of the Provinces.
Page 233 - I use the word cartel to include fusion, pooling arrangement, quota arrangement and price convention, because a cartel is protean in its form. * * * In an ultratechnical way, a cartel might be denned as a combination of producers for the purpose of regulating, as a rule, production, and, frequently, prices.
Page 134 - ... all questions of what is fair and right in relation to any industrial matter having regard to the interests of the persons immediately concerned and of society as a whole.
Page 146 - ... the properties of matter enables us to form an opinion beforehand as to the substances we have available for obtaining a desired result, we can now foresee, in most cases, in what direction progress in technology will move, and in consequence the inventor is now frequently in advance of the wants of his time. He may even create new wants, to my mind a distinct step in the development of human culture.
Page 78 - Contemporary writers who comment on the increasing degradation of the labouring classes too often treat as its causes changes which were really its consequences. They note the increase of drunkenness, but forget that the occupation of the labourers' idle moments was gone ; they attack the mischievous practice of giving children tea, but forget that milk was no longer procurable ; they condemn the rising generation as incapable for farm labour, but forget that the parents no longer occupied land on...
Page 138 - With a view to preventing loss of production caused by disputes between employers and workpeople no stoppage of work by strike or lock-out should take place on work for Government purposes. In the event of...
Page 35 - ... payments in kind' (such as the free use of a house, free coals, gas, water), which are given as part of an employee's remuneration, and in lieu of money payments. "In harmony with this meaning of Income, the language of the market-place commonly regards a man's capital as that part of his wealth which he devotes to acquiring an income in the form of money ; or, more generally, to acquisition (Erwerbung) by means of trade. It may be convenient sometimes to speak of this as his trade capital...
Page 130 - Any dispute which is within the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of any province and which by the legislation of the province is made subject to the provisions of this Act.