... CONDITIONS OF SLAVERY. The men were discharged simply and solely because they attended a Trade Union meeting. But apart from this immediate instance of tyranny, the conditions of work are monstrous. Conductors get a minimum wage of 16/6 per week of six ...

... CHILD SLAVERY. Little children of from five upwards —many of them brought from Southcountry workhouses—toiled like slaves in the factories, mills, and mines. There was no legal protection for the youngest and weakest in regard to hours and conditions ...

... SLAVERY ON THE RAILWAYS. The terribly long hours which railway, servants are compelled to work are revealed in a White Paper, issued by the Board of Trade on Monday. During the month of February the number of instances on which men worked for 13 hours ...

... CHAINS AND SLAVERY. By J. J. A land of murk and barrenness, a black and scowling land of dust and 1 forges and chimney stacks, a sad land of grime and weariness, tempered, at least for the men, by occasional deep potations. Such is Cradley Heath, centre ...

... SLAVERY OF RURAL WORKERS. Wednesday, June 14th. On an amendment to reduce the rote by £lOO in respect of the 'Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, Mr. G. H. ROBERTS said in the part of the country from whence he hailed there were agricultural labourers ...

... Tks New Slavery. After Lieut.• Col. Amery had made a statement, for the most part to empty benches, on British Colonial Government and Colonial Policy, and Sir Donald Maclean had delivered one of those milk and water speeches of his, which contain ...

... MENACE OF CONSCRIPT SLAVERY. THE EDITOR. aotin Simon assured the House that the National Ministry was perfectly innocent of any design to introduce forced labour, under the provisions of the Bill, without consulting Parliament, though he did not explain ...

... SLAVERY IN RURAL DISTRICTS. INTERVIEW WITH M (Secretary of the Agricul starve ; the first thing she thinks about is her children and husband. As a result of this chronic underfeeding we have a very large percentage of insanity among the women. lam on ...

... CAUSE OF WHITE SLAVERY Socialists will be interested to note that the report of the United States Immigration Commission on the white slave' trade does not claim that white slavery is caused by natural depravity, human weakness, lack of moral training ...

... LITTLE REMOVED FROM SLAVERY. It was a speech which Mr. Roberts delivered in Parliament last June which made me anxious to have a chat with him on the Labour Party's message to the rural worker. This was the passage which impressed me In the part of the ...

... Mire Profitable than Slavery. In the olden days of warfare, the conquering nation could and did make slaves and exact tribute. But no victorious nation would now for a moment dream of making slaves of the conquered people, because experience has demonstrated ...

... This Book will have the same effect on Militarism as 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' had on Slavery. This is what a reader says of ...