Labour's Magna Charta: A Critical Study of the Labour Clauses of the Peace Treaty and of the Draft Conventions and Recommendations of the Washington International Labour Conference (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Archibald Chisholm

9780656357932: Labour's Magna Charta: A Critical Study of the Labour Clauses of the Peace Treaty and of the Draft Conventions and Recommendations of the Washington International Labour Conference (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Labour's Magna Charta: A Critical Study of the Labour Clauses of the Peace Treaty and of the Draft Conventions and Recommendations of the Washington International Labour Conference

ON June 5, 1215, King John signed, in presence of his barons, the Charter which we still regard as the basis of our liberties. Some may doubt the wisdom of calling the Labour Clauses of the Peace Treaty by a name which recalls the Great Charter of seven hundred years ago; an endeavour is here made to estimate the significance of these clauses, to examine the principles on which they are based, and at the same time to indicate the dangers attached to a too ruthless application of some of them.

The problems of to-day can be solved only by inter national action. Although chief attention is paid to conditions in Great Britain, it has been found necessary to examine also conditions in other countries. India where the strike spirit has manifested itself even among golf-caddies, and Japan where the workers pursue a ca' canny policy because strikes are illegal, are calling out for the solutions which we ourselves so much require.

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