Labour policy—false and true

by Lynden Livingston Macassey

• Berne (Socialist Conferences), [65], [67], [73];
• Reconstitution Second International, [65]
• Brook Farm, Socialist Phalanx at, [98]
• Clyde, Strikes of 1916, [52];
• Causes of, [52];
• How engineered, [79];
• Success of Works’ Committees on the, [267];
• Workers’ Committee, [80]
• Geneva, Resolutions on Socialism, [67], [68]
• Hollesley Bay, Farm Colony at, [127]
• Kienthal Conference, [65]
• Laindon, Colony at, [128]
• Lucerne Conference, [67]
• Minsk, [83]
• Moscow, [74]
• North America, Socialist Phalanx in, [98]
• Paris, [65], [67], [73], [77]
• Poland, [81], [83]
• Poplar, Guardians, [198]
• Port Sunlight, [214]
• Russia, [77], [82], [83], [84], [120]
• South Ockenden, Farm Colony at, [128]
• South Wales, Miners’ Strike 138, [155]
• Stockholm Conference, [65]
• Vienna, [75]
• Washington, Conference at, [238]
• Wisconsin, Socialistic Phalanx at, [98]
• Zimmerwald Conference, [65]

PART IV. PUBLICATIONS.

• “Accountant,” [204]
• “Bolshevism, an International Danger” (Miliukov), [52]
• “Call,” [5]
• “Case for Capitalism” (Withers), [92]
• “Case for Land Nationalization” (Hyder), [104]
• “Co-operative Magazine,” [40]
• “Daily Herald,” [42], [84]
• “Division of the Product of Industry” (Bowley), [274], [305]
• “Economic Liberty” (Cox), [93], [125], [127]
• “Edinburgh Review,” [9]
• “Evening Standard,” [9]
• “German v. British Railways” (Pratt), [99]
• “Group Mind” (McDougall), [232]
• “Guild Socialism Restated” (Cole), [44]
• “Historical Sketch of State Railway Ownership” (Acworth), [100]
• “Histoire des Ateliers Nationaux” (Thomas), [126]
• “History of British Socialism” (Beer), [48], [49], [79]
• “History of Trade Unionism” (Webb), [50], [76], [80]
• “Human Needs of Labour” (Rowntree), [305]
• “Industrial Democracy” (Webb), [76]
• “Justice,” [53]
• “Labour and the New Social Order,” [57], [85]
• “Labour International Handbook,” [74]
• “Labour Leader,” [54]
• “Labour Party and the Countryside,” [89]
• “Labour Supply and Regulation” (Wolfe), [133]
• “Land Nationalization” (Cox), [105]
• “Life and Labour in London” (Booth), [50]
• “Nineteenth Century,” [9]
• “Official Policy for reconstruction after the War,” [231]
• “Organization du travail” (Blanc), [125]
• “Poverty and Waste” (Withers), [304]
• “Prices and Wages in the United Kingdom” (Bowley), [139], [157]
• “Progress and Poverty” (George), [50], [101]
• “Quarterly Review,” [9]
• “Red Catechism,” [281]
• “Revolutionary Movement in Great Britain” (Shadwell), [41], [53]
• “Revolutionary Syndicalism” (Estey), [43]
• “Right to Work” (Marriott), [126]
• “Socialist,” [55]
• “Socialist Standard,” [55]
• “State and Revolution” (Lenin), [73]
• “Sunday Times,” [9]
• “Two internationals” (Palme Dutt), [65], [74]
• “Times,” [9], [41], [191], [243]
• “Trade Unionism and Political Action,” [29]
• “Unemployment: A Labour Policy,” [118]
• “Workers’ International” (Postgate), [65]

PART V. ORGANIZATIONS.

• Amalgamated (Society of Engineers) Engineering Union, [29], [30], [78], [136], [267]
• American Socialist Party, Connection with Socialist Labour Party, [54]
• Bolsheviks, [73]
• British Socialist Party, [53], [58]
• Building Trade Unions, [119]
• Communist Party of Great Britain, [53], [74]
• Electrical Trades Union, [77]
• Electoral Labour Committee, [21]
• Fabian Research Department, [54]
• Fabian Society, [21], [25], [53]
• Federation of British Industries, [239], [255]
• General Federation of Trade Unions, [26]
• General Workers’ Union, [30]
• “Hands Off Russia” Committee, [52]
• Harmony Community of Equality, [98]
• Herald League, [25]
• Independent Labour Party, [21], [25], [54], [74]
• Industrial Workers of the World, [51], [55], [79]
• Interim Industrial Reconstruction Committees, [143]
• International Labour Organization, [253]
• Jewish Socialist Party, [25]
• Joint Council, [26]
• Labour Party, Evolution of, [21];
• Constitution, 1900, [21], [22];
• Reconstitution, 1918, [22];
• Objects, [23];
• Membership, [25];
• Finance, [25];
• Sectarian characteristics, [27];
• Want of leadership, [30];
• General Policy, [32];
• Adoption of Socialism, [46];
• Home Socialistic Programme, [56], [85], [224], [226];
• International Socialistic Programme, [68];
• Approval of Direct Action, [76];
• Policy for Unemployment, [106], [124]
• Labour Representation Committee, [21], [22], [52]
• Labour Representation League, [21]
• Labour Research Department, [54]
• Land Nationalization Society, [101]
• League of Nations, [37], [38]
• Local Labour Parties, [23], [28]
• Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, [44]
• Ministry of Labour, The work of the, [153];
• The need of a real, [251]
• Ministry of Munitions, [137]
• National Council of Social Service, [196]
• National Federation of Employers’ Approved Societies, [258], [260], [261]
• National Guilds League, [55]
• National Joint Council, [26]
• National Socialist Party, [53]
• National Union of Railwaymen, [30]
• National Union of Sailors and Firemen, [77]
• Parliamentary Labour Party, [22], [27]
• Plumbers’ Union, [29]
• Post Office, [99], [100]
• Shipyard Labour Department, [212], [288]
• Social Democratic Federation, [21], [25], [52], [55]
• Socialist Labour Party of Glasgow, [51], [54], [79]
• Socialist League, [52]
• Socialist Party of Great Britain, [55]
• Socialist Societies, [52]
• Trades Councils, [22], [25]
• Trades Union Congress, [21], [25], [50], [122]
• Women’s Labour League, [25]
• Works’ Societies, [262]

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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