English Social MovementsC. Scribner's sons, 1891 - 277页 |
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active Army assistance Association Barnett body Booth's branches bringing buildings Cambridge carried centres charge Charity Organization Society Christian Church of England co-operation co-operative coffee-houses committee connection Country Holiday County Council course developed direction district Dockers East End East London economic efforts English entertainments established Extension lectures Fabian Society Federation feeling Fund give given gradually Guild hope important increase industrial influence institutions interest John Burns Jude's Kyrle Society labor land large number leaders League London County Council meetings men's clubs ment mission movement municipal nearly nurses Oxford House parish Parliament persons political poor present prison progress public house recently religious residents Salvation Army schools secure Social Democratic Federation Social Union Socialist Stepney strike success Sunday temperance tendency tion Tom Mann towns Toynbee Hall trade unions University Extension Whitechapel whole women workers young
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第57页 - For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless.
第58页 - The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in land and of the consequent individual appropriation in the form of rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites. The Society, further, works for the transfer to the community of the administration of such industrial capital as can be conveniently managed socially.
第57页 - The Fabian Society consists of socialists. It therefore aims at the reorganisation of society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit. In this way only can the natural and acquired advantages of the country be equitably shared by the whole people.
第31页 - ... maintenance of the members when on travel in search of employment, or when in distressed circumstances, or in case of shipwreck, or loss or damage of or to boats or nets...
第43页 - Party should have as a definite object the Socialisation of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, to be controlled by a Democratic State in the interests of the entire community ; and the complete emancipation of Labour from the domination of Capitalism and Landlordism, with the establishment of social and economic equality between the sexes.
第58页 - Interest will be added to the reward of labor, the idle class now living on the labor of others will necessarily disappear, and practical equality of opportunity will be maintained by the spontaneous action of economic forces with much less interference with personal liberty than the present system entails. For the attainment of these ends the Fabian Society looks to the spread of Socialist opinions, and the social and political changes consequent thereon, including the establishment of equal citizenshipx...
第30页 - ... the relief or maintenance of the members, their husbands, wives, children, fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters, nephews or nieces, or wards being orphans, during sickness or other infirmity, whether bodily or mental, in old age (which...
第45页 - CONSTRUCTION of healthy artisans' and agricultural labourers' dwellings in proportion to the population, such dwellings to be let at rents to cover the cost of construction and maintenance alone. FREE COMPULSORY EDUCATION for all classes, together with the provision of at least one wholesome meal a day in each school. EIGHT HOURS or less to be the normal WORKING DAY in all trades. CUMULATIVE TAXATION upon all incomes above a fixed minimum not exceeding £300 a year. STATE APPROPRIATION OF RAILWAYS,...
第30页 - For insuring money to be paid on the birth of a member's child, or on the death of a member, or for the funeral expenses of the husband, wife, or child of a member...
第44页 - PROGRAMME: 1) All OFFICERS or ADMINISTRATORS to be elected by EQUAL DIRECT ADULT SUFFRAGE, and to be paid by the community. 2) LEGISLATION BY THE PEOPLE, in such wise that no project of law shall become legally binding till accepted by the Majority of the People. 3) The ABOLITION of a STANDING ARMY and the ESTABLISHMENT Of a NATIONAL CITIZEN FORCE; the PEOPLE tO decide on PEACE or WAR. 4) All Education, higher no less than elementary, to be FREE, COMPULSORY, SECULAR and INDUSTRIAL for all alike.