IS THE FIVE-DAY WEEK POPULAR?

... “You cannot hope to prevent a strong resilent people from working if they wish to do so,” he said. r éompulsory work may be slavery, but compulsory idleness if you want to work is an infringement which our people do not suffer gladly.” Sir John said that ...

Published: Tuesday 10 January 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 183 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

MIND YOUR

... born at Macadi in the confines of Abbysinnia and died at Wanlip Hall in she 19th year of his age. Raised from a state of slavery in this lifc and enabled, by God’s grace, to become a member of this Church, he rests here in the hope of a greater deliverance ...

LABOUR’S FAITH AND WORKS

... aim from the very beginning has been social regeneration, 'he Socialist conception of a new England grew out of the white slavery of the industrial evolution. Women working halfnaked in the coal mines, young children dragging trucks all day in the foul ...

Published: Friday 03 February 1950
Newspaper: Todmorden & District News
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

TORIES CRITICISED

... point out that they aim at more human relations and a fair share of the proceeds for the worker. Need I remind you that Tory slavery was the sole reason for the birth of trade unions? The ultimate result being nationalisation. They tell us their aim is to ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 709 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

FEBRUARY 17. 1950

... rationing was essential in a world of shortages and that it was even necessary to nationalise the mines to set miners free from slavery under unscrupulous mine owners. And if Labour is returned to power I have no doubt that the propaganda that everyone will ...

Published: Friday 17 February 1950
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 256 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Wonderful Narratives

... Crusoe,” written by Daniel Defoe when he was nearly 60 years of age; or “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” the great story of American slavery, by Harriet Beecher Stowe. How many of the boys now at school have read these wonderful narratives, I wonder, and have been ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

~ossesThe = Chatty Si-c—izg of the News

... customs, there is a traditional reason for this. In the early years of last century William Wilberforce, the great anti-slaveri leader, opposed a proposal that the session should begin on a Monday on the ground that it would entail Sunday travelling ...

Published: Monday 17 April 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 444 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

ITEMS FROM ABROAD Mummified Princess Had Gloves Of Pure Gold

... ornaments, and other precious jewels lay beside the body. 7 * ¥* Quebec, has petitioned the King to intervene and end the “slavery” of Canada’s Indians. . * Xl Village “State,” — The Council of the village of Attin (population 314), near Lille, declared ...

Published: Friday 21 April 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 422 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

South Leith Warning Of The Fetters’ Of Socialism

... Protestant Action candidate for South Leith, when he addressed 40 electors in Leith Academy last night. ; Socialism was slavery, he said, and the process of the State gaining more and more control outside the orbit of the law was creeping more and moré ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1950
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 311 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

READERS’ VIEWS

... propaganda by the Labour Party, who advocated a socialist policy of fair shares for all, the abolition of slums, poverty and slavery. we find that as far as we are concerned here the whole of these promises have proved to be entirely false, and that we are ...

Published: Friday 12 May 1950
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1594 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE P.G.M. REPORTS

... during his term of office he desired to express thanks. Football. Hard-hitting articles on such controversial subjects as the “slavery” of modem ffcotfeallers and the eclipse of England in the World Cup are features of the lavishly illustrated “Day & Mason ...

Published: Friday 25 August 1950
Newspaper: Shetland Times
County: Shetland, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 281 | Page: 8 | Tags: none