The Liberal Magazine, Volume 34Liberal Publication Department, 1926 - Great Britain |
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agreed agreement agricultural Amendment April Assembly authorities Baldwin Bill read Board Britain British cent Chancellor Churchill Clause coal mining Commission Committee Conference Conservative continued Council Daily Telegraph debate debt declared delegates discussion dispute district duty economic effect election Estimates Exchequer expenditure exports Finance foreign Fund Germany Government House of Commons HOUSE OF LORDS important increase Insurance interest issue July June Labour Party land leaders League of Nations Liberal Party LIBERALS CONSERVATIVES Lloyd George Locarno London Lord Oxford Manchester Guardian meeting ment miners mining industry months National Liberal Federation negotiations organisation owners Parliament Parliamentary payment persons political present Prime Minister proposals question Ramsay MacDonald reduction regard Report resolution Runciman scheme Secretary secure settlement Sir John Simon speech statement strike subsidy tariff tion Trade Union unemployment votes wages WALTER RUNCIMAN whole workers workpeople
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Page 381 - Any Member of the League may, after two years' notice of its intention so to do, withdraw from the League, provided that all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal.
Page 581 - ... consisting of nine members to serve for terms of three years each, except that of the examiners first elected three shall be elected for a term of one year, three for a term of two years and three for a term of three years, and annually thereafter three examiners shall be elected for terms of three years.
Page 20 - ... of Northern Ireland and one who shall be Chairman to be appointed by the British Government shall determine in accordance with the wishes of the inhabitants, so far as may be compatible with economic and geographic conditions the boundaries between Northern Ireland and the rest of Ireland, and for the purposes of the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, and of this instrument, the boundary of Northern Ireland shall be such as may be determined by such Commission.
Page 416 - This section applies only if and so far as a contrary intention is not expressed in the disposition, and shall have effect subject to the terms of the disposition and to the provisions therein contained.
Page 299 - Improvements of processes, machinery and organization and appropriate questions relating to management and the examination of industrial experiments, with special reference to cooperation in carrying new ideas into effect and full consideration of the workpeople's point of view in relation to them.
Page 288 - ... we are here to-day, sir, to say that this general strike is to be terminated forthwith, in order that negotiations may proceed, and, we can only hope, may proceed in a manner which will bring about a satisfactory settlement.
Page 242 - We are convinced that National Health Insurance has now become a permanent feature of the social system of this country, and should be continued on its present compulsory and contributory basis.
Page 416 - Subject to the provisions of this Act, a legitimated person and his spouse, children or more remote issue shall be entitled to take any interest — (a) in the estate of an intestate dying after the date of legitimation...
Page 420 - ... to show the average increase in the cost of maintaining unchanged the pre-war standard of living of working-class families...
Page 299 - The settlement of the general principles governing the conditions of employment, including the methods of fixing, paying, and re-adjusting wages, having regard to the need for securing to the workpeople a share in the increased prosperity of the industry.