Part Vi. Subjects.

Administrative Staff, Capital and, 231; Manual Workers and, 232

Agitation, Workers’ belief in, 216

Agriculture, Councils for, 90; Government’s new policy in 1921, Repeal of Corn Production Act, 1917, a “breach of faith,” 171; Government war-time control, 171; Joint Conciliation Committees, 172; Labour’s Policy for, 35, 89; Unemployment Insurance, 174; Control by Workers of, 91; Wages Board, 171, 172, 173, 174

Approved Societies, National Federation of Employees, 261

Arbitration, Industrial, under Munitions Act, 137; Failure of compulsory, 137; under Industrial Courts Act, 148, 248

Aspirations, The Three Dominant Industrial, 222

Ateliers nationaux, Failure of, 126

Bolshevism, An International Danger, by Dr. Miliukov, 52; Repudiation of, by Second International, 72; The Essentials of, 73

“Brooklands” Agreement, 1893, 146

Capital, Marxian Fallacy of the Origin of, 282

Capital, and Administrative Staff, 231; and Manual Workers, 231

Capitalism, 38, 41; Alleged defects of, 95; Our Debt to, 93; Meaning of, 92; Socialists’ description of, 41; Where Reform is needed, 97

Census of Production, 1907, 273

Chartism, Labour’s connection with, 47

Chief Industrial Commissioner’s Department, Absorption in Ministry of Labour, 142

Citizen, The duty of the, 305

Coal Industry, Failure of Part II of 1920 Act, 162; Government war-time control, 157; Mining Industry Act, 1920, 159; Pre-war conditions in, 155; Royalties, 163; South Wales Strike, 1915, 155; Strike of October 1920, 160; Strike of April 1921, 161; Government policy, 163; Sankey Commission, 158; Government’s action on Report of, 117

Combinations and Monopolies, Regulation of, 254

Committee on Production, 135, 136

Communism, Its meaning, 74; First Communist International Congress, 74; Communist Party of Great Britain, 53, 74

Community, Industry and, 233; Protection of, 248; Workers and, 220; Wages and, 273

Competition, Labour’s objection to, 32, 58, 96

Conciliation, Machinery for, Industry’s own, 143, 144; State’s, 148; Preferable to intervention, 247

Consumer, Responsibility of the, 303

Contentment in Industry, What it depends on, 256, 263, 271, 279

Control of Industry, 58, 60

Co-operation, Between Employers and Unions at beginning of war, 133; The Marxian argument against, 281; The Workers’ own resort to, 280; Methods of securing, 289

Co-operative Movement, 24, 39, 121; Emergency Conference of, 25

Cost of Living, Labour Party Committee on, 141; Recommendations of Joint Committee on, 114; Relation of Wages to, 140; Summer Committee on, 140

Council of Action, 31; Establishment of, 82

County Wages Committees, 90

Currency, Inflation of, 139

Debts, Inter-Allies, 242

Demand for Labour, Equalization of, 256

Demarcation of work, between Trade Unions, 29; Effect on industry, 300

Democracy and Dictatorship, 66

Depression, Policy for Present trade, 235

Dilution, Meaning of, 134; “Treasury” Agreements, 135; How introduced on Clyde, 267

Direct Action, Meaning and qualities of, 76; Labour Party’s adoption of, 80, 81; On the Clyde, 1916, 78

Discontent and its Causes, 213

Dockers’ Inquiry, 273

Dock Strike, 1889, 50

Educational System, Reorganisation of, 34, 118

Electricity, Nationalization of production of, 85, 86

Employers, Suspicion of, 218

Employment, Dependence on demand, 126

Employment Exchanges, 142, 151, 176, 177

Environment, Effect of bad, 214

Exchanges, Stabilizing the, 239

Executive Management a matter for Employers, 269

Expenditure, Reduction of National, 237

Export Credits Scheme, 200, 204, 244; General Guarantees, 206; Specific Guarantees, 205

Factory Conditions, Regulation of, 247

Farm Colony Fiascos, 127

Finance, Labour’s Scheme of, 121; Labour’s vagueness with regard to, 227; Revolution in Public, 36

Financial Policy, Revision of National, 240

General Election of 1900, 21; of 1906, 22; of 1910, 22; of 1918, 22

“George Scheme,” For confiscating rent, 101; Argument for, 102; Answer to, 103

German indemnity, 121

Government’s normal labour policy, 142; Policy for present depression, 235; Proper normal relation to industry, 246; Policy with regard to coal industry, 155; Railways, 164; Agriculture, 171

Human Relationships in Industry, Enumeration of, 230

Human Status in Industry, Dissatisfaction of worker with, 215, 222, 223; Means for conferring on workers’, 263

Ignorance of Worker about Industry, 212

Imperialism, 37, 38

Improvement, Desire for, 216

Industrial Conference, 1919, 117; Labour’s recommendations to, 111; Labour’s Report to, 59; Rt. Hon. A. Henderson’s Addendum to, 112

Industrial Conciliation Machinery, Description of, 143, 144, 147; The Slowness of Ordinary, 263

Industrial Research, 250

Industrial Revolution (1780-1830), 93

Industries and Businesses, Control of Capitalistic, 88; to be nationalized, 85

Industry, and the Consuming Community, 233; and the Nation, 233; Ignorance about, 212

Insurance, by Industry or Industries, 259; by State or Industry, 258; State, 259

Insurance Companies, Nationalization of, 87

Inter-Allies Debts, 242

Internationals, The First, 65; The Old Second, 65; The New Second, 67; The Third or “Moscow,” 53, 73; Vienna or “Two-and-a-half,” 75

International Co-operation, 37

International Financial Conference 1920, 236, 305

International Labour Charter, 1919, 66

International Peace, Establishment of, 236

Job-Finding Organization, Need of a, 258

Joint Industrial Councils, 143, 265

Joint National Councils, 265

Justice, The Need in Industry of Strict, 286

Labour Exchanges, see Employment Exchanges.

Labour, Government Departments concerned in administration of, 142

Labour Management, Effect of relieving Employers of responsibility for, 138

Labour Party, see Organizations

Labour Problem, What it is, 15; Solution of, 18

Landlordism, Labour’s proposal for abolition of, 90

Land Nationalization, 58; Conceptions underlying each Scheme, 102; different schemes of, 100; “George” or Taxing-out Scheme, 101, 102, 103; Nationalization Society’s or “State Purchase” Scheme, 101, 102; Socialist Confiscation Schemes, 101, 102, 103; Disadvantages of, 105

Liquor Control, 87

Maintenance of Workers, 114, 115, 118, 122, 124

Manual Workers, Administrative Staff and the, 232; Capital and the, 231; Inter se, 232

Mines, Nationalization of, 85, 86

Municipal Enterprise, Extension of, 88

Municipal Socialization, 70

Municipalization of Land, 100

Nation, Industry and the, 233

National Expenditure, Committee on, 153, 186; Reduction of, 237

National Guildism, 43, 95

National Industries, 70

National Joint Council, 26

National Wages Board, 90

Nationalization and Democratic Control, 15, 44, 227

Nationalization, Limits within which it is practicable, 99

Nationalization of Land, 58; Different schemes of, 100; of Mines, 85, 86; of Insurance Companies, 87; of production of electrical power, 85, 86; of Railways, 85; of the means of production, distribution and exchange, 56

Nationalization Society’s Scheme of Land Nationalization, 101

“New Australia,” 98

Nottingham Glove and Hosiery Industry, 144

Outdoor Relief, Reform of Present System, 261

Output, Workers’ Belief in Restricting, 294

Parliament of Industry, 254

“Passing it on,” 293

Payment by Results, 298

Peace, Establishment of International, 236

Personal Freedom, Effective, 33

Political Power, Labour’s Struggle for, 47

Poor Law Relief, 195; Ascertainment of applicant’s income, 196; Assistance to Guardians to carry out works, 197; to raise loans, 198; Funding the cost, 197; Help to poorer Metropolitan Unions, 198; Principles governing administration, 195

Prices, No “Niggling” at, 301

Problem, the Labour, What it is, 15

Process, Subdivision and simplification of, 299

Product of Industry, Equitable share of, 222, 224; Insufficient distribution, 97

Production, Importance of, 256, 290; What it depends on, 256, 291; Obstacles to, 291, 302; Need for immediate reduced cost of, 245

Profits, Limitation of Employers’, 136

Promotion, 279

Protectionism, 37, 38

Public Opinion, Formation of Sound, 303

Public Works, 123

Railways, Conciliation Machinery of 1921, 168; Councils, 170; Government war-time control, 164; Nationalization of, 85; Pre-war conditions, 164; Sectional Councils, 169; Strike of September 1919, 166; The Railways Act, 1921, 168; Wage Agreement of March 1919, 165; Wage Agreement of March 1920, 166

Reconstruction, The Vagueness of Labour’s Scheme of, 224

Reform of Industry v. Reconstruction, 228

Relief Works, 124, 127, 128

Remuneration of the Workers, 271; Systems of, 275

Reparations Policy, Reconsideration of, 241

Right to Strike, 70

Right to Work, Unsoundness of, 124

Road Fund, Report on the, 191

Road Schemes, Expedited, 191; 1920-21 Programme, 191; 1921-22 Programme, 192; Conditions attaching to Grants, 194; Provincial Schemes, 193; Special Metropolitan Schemes, 193

Royalties, 163

Sankey Commission, The, 158

Secret Fund, Workers’ Notion of the, 292

Shop Stewards, 79

Shortage of Labour, Unsettling Effect of, 134

Social Service, 306

Socialism, Definition of, 40; Origin of name, 40; Basic characteristics, 40; First adopted by Labour (1832), 47; Renounced by Labour (1842-85), 49; Different kinds, 40; Revolutionary, 47; Earliest form, 47; Recent form, 51; Direct Action, 76-84; State Socialism, 42, 50, 226; National Guildism, 43; Syndicalism, 42; Nationalization and Democratic Control, 44, 225, 227; Home programme, General outline of, 56-64; Industry, 85-88; Land, 89-91; Criticism of, 92-105; International Programme, 65-75; Geneva Resolutions, 68; Socialist Organizations, Home, 52 International, 65-75; Marxian Doctrines of, 280, 281, 282, 283; Failure of Experiments in, 98

Socialist Confiscation Schemes, 101, 102, 103

Socialistic Experiments, Failure of Past, 98

Socialization, 68; of land and industry, 34

Socialized Industries, Administration of, 70

Soviets, Setting up of local, 84

Standard of Living, 139; A national minimum, 32

State Conciliation Machinery, 148

State Control and Prices, 60

State Ownership of Land, The Disadvantages of, 105

State Purchase Scheme, 101, 102

State Socialism, 42, 95; Era of, 50

Surplus Wealth for the Common Good, 36

Suspicion of Employers, 218

Sympathetic Handling of Labour, a special art, 287; An illustration of its successful application, 288

Sympathy in Workshop Life, The money value of, 287; the need of, 285

Syndicalism, 42, 95

Syndicalist Revolutionary Ferment, 1905, 51

Tariffs, Protection, 38

Taxation, Lowering of, 238

Taxing-out Scheme, 101

Time- and Labour-saving Appliances, Difficulties of Introduction of, 297

Trade Boards, Acts, purposes of, 149; Administered by Ministry of Labour, 142; Need of, 250; Cave Committee’s recommendations, 250; Mistakes of, 250

Trade Facilities Act, 1921, Guarantee of Loans under, 199; Policy of Advisory Committee, 200; Difficulties of Committee, 202; Guarantees already given, 203; Beneficial effect of, 245

Trade, Freedom of International, demanded by Labour, 38

Trade Union, The Worker’s attitude to his, 219

Trade Unionism, Development of, 46

Trade Unionism and Political Action Sectarian Programme, 29

Trades Councils, Inclusion in Labour Party, 23; Political Subjection to Trade Unions, 28

Trades Union Congress, Functions of, 21; Labour’s Parliamentary Representation, Furtherance of, 22; Unemployment, joint manifesto on, 122; Constitution of, 25; Socialism, attitude towards, 50

Training, demanded by Labour for all persons unemployed, 111; Women, 118; Young people, 119

Transport Systems, Reorganization of Continental, recommended by Labour, 121

Transport Workers’ Federation, Contentions of, at Dockers’ Inquiry, 273

“Treasury” Agreements, 1915, Repudiation by Clyde Engineers, 79, 267; Negotiation of, 135, 136; General failure of, 137; Enforcement of, by Munitions Act, 137; Purpose of, 135

Trusts, Report of Committee on, 254

Unemployment (see also Export Credits Scheme; Poor Law Relief; Road Schemes; Trade Facilities Act), Injurious effect of, 215; Total prevention impossible, 126; Provision against, essential for contentment in industry, 256; What can be done, 256; Labour policy for, 106-123; its unsoundness, 124; Government policy for, 175-208; Labour’s refusal to co-operate, 117

Unemployment after the War, 1917, Memorandum on, 107

Unemployment Insurance, Need of proper Scheme, 257; Insurance by State, 259; Insurance by industry or industries, 259; Insurance by firms, 261; The State Insurance Scheme, 176-187; cost of, 208; Acts of Parliament, see Part I

Value, Marxian Fallacy of, 283

Wages, Legal minimum agricultural, 90; and prices, increase of, 139; and the community, 273; are higher wages practicable, 273; in unorganized industries, 250; Misconceptions, as to, 212; Relation to cost of living, 140; Remuneration of the worker, 271; Settlement of, 275; Statutory minimum, 149; Systems of remuneration, 275; 12½ per cent. bonus, 139, 252, 273; Uniform national, 271; Wage relationships among the workers, 272; What are fair, 276

War Aims, 1917, Memorandum on, 107

War Wealth Committee, Report of, 240

Whitley Committee, 56, 264

Whitley Councils, 143, 264

Whitley Report, 1918, Labour Addendum to, 56

Work, Workers low conception of, 217

Work or Maintenance, 106, 111, 118, 122, 124

Work, Right to, Bills to confer, 124; Unsoundness of claim, 124; Failure in France, 125; Impossibility in practice, 126

Workers, Ignorance about industry, 212; and about Wages, 212; Discontent and the causes, 213; Effect of bad environment on, 214; Fear of unemployment, 215; Dissatisfaction with status, 215; Belief in agitation, 216; Desire for improvement, 216; Low conception of work, 217; Suspicion of employers, 218; Relationship of, to Trade Union, 219; to community, 220; Three dominant aspirations, 222; Relationship of, to capital, 231, 256, 263, 271, 279, 280, 285, 286; to administrative staff, 232; to one another, 232; Fallacious views on: Co-operation, 281; Capital, 282; Value, 283; “Secret Fund,” 292; “Passing it on,” 293; Restricting output, 294; Time- and labour-saving appliances, 297; Payment by results, 298; Simplification of process, 299

Works’ Committees, 143, 265, 266; Slow progress of, 266; Success on the Clyde, 267

Works of Public Utility, 187; see also Road Schemes, Unemployment

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