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Page 69 - ... 3- An action shall not be brought against a trade union or other association aforesaid for the recovery of damage sustained by any person or persons by reason of the action of a member or members of such trade union or other association aforesaid.
Page 19 - We know perfectly well what to expect — a party of great vested interests, banded together in a formidable confederation ; corruption at home, aggression to cover it up abroad ; the trickery of tariff juggles, the tyranny of a party machine ; sentiment by the bucketful ; patriotism by the imperial pint ; the open hand at the public exchequer, the open door at the public-house ; dear food for the million, cheap labour for the millionaire.
Page 26 - ... knowledge of the game. It is no excuse for presumptuous ignorance, that it is directed by insolent passion. The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. But I cannot conceive any existence...
Page 4 - Act impose, in respect of all existing on-licences renewed in respect of premises within their area, charges at rates not exceeding and graduated in the same proportion as the rates shown in the scale of maximum charges set out in the First Schedule to this Act. (2) Charges payable under this section in respect of any licence shall be levied and paid together with and as part of the duties on the corresponding excise licence...
Page 56 - That" in order to add the words "this House, holding that the evils of low-priced alien labour can best be met by legislation to prevent sweating, desires to assure itself before assenting to the Aliens Bill that sufficient regard is had in the proposed measure to the retention of the principle of asylum for the victims of persecution."— (Sir Charles Dilke.) Question proposed, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question.
Page 64 - Parliament — (a) a sum equal to four shillings per scholar ; and (b) an additional sum of three halfpence per scholar for every complete twopence per scholar by which the amount which would be produced by a penny rate on the area of the authority falls short of ten shillings a scholar...
Page 4 - Sessions shall consider all reports so made to them, and may, if they think it expedient, after giving the persons interested in the licensed premises, and, unless it appears to...
Page 43 - ... justices think best adapted for securing to the public any monopoly value which is represented by the difference between the value which the premises will bear, in the opinion of the justices, when licensed, and the value of the same premises if they were not licensed.
Page 8 - Accordingly I suggest that you should limit the present policy of the Government to the assertion of our freedom in the case of all commercial relations with foreign countries, and that you should agree to my tendering my resignation of my present office to his Majesty and devoting myself to the work of explaining and popularising those principles of Imperial union which my experience has convinced me are essential to our future welfare and prosperity. " Yours very sincerely, "J. CHAMBERLAIN.