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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