The Making of a Premier: An Outline of the Life Story of the Right Hon. W. L. Mackenzie King, C.M.G.

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Musson book Company, Limited, 1922 - Počet stran: 91
 

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Strana x - We are practical beings — each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the importance of his own duties, and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret for sympathy with which we vainly look in others. The others are too much absorbed in their own vital secrets to take an interest in ours.
Strana 5 - That it be resolved, that all Government contracts should contain such conditions as will prevent abuses, which may arise from the subletting of such contracts, and that every effort should be made to secure the payment of such wages as are generally accepted as current in each trade for competent workmen...
Strana 23 - When it is remembered that organized society alone makes possible the operation of mines to the mutual benefit of those engaged in the work of production, a recognition of the obligations due society by the parties is something which the State is justified in compelling if the parties themselves are unwilling to concede it. In any civilized community private rights should cease when they become public wrongs. Clearly, there is nothing in the rights of parties to a dispute to justify the inhabitants...
Strana 38 - Canada, to conduct an investigation 'with a special view,' to quote the language of an official letter, 'to the discovery of some mutual relationship between Labor and Capital which would afford to Labor the protection it needs against oppression and exploitation, while at the same time promoting its efficiency as an instrument of economic production.' In no sense was this inquiry to be local or restricted; the problem was recognized to be a world-problem, and in the study of it the experience of...
Strana 72 - ... of others, and with it all, so large a measure of opportunity to do my duty, as God gave it to me to see my duty, at that time.
Strana 54 - It is the Community which provides the natural resources and powers that underlie all production. Individuals may acquire title by one means or another, but it is from the Community, and with the consent of the Community, that titles are held. It is the Community, organized in various ways, which maintains government and foreign relations, secures law and order, fosters the arts and inventions, aids education, breeds opinion, and promotes, through concession or otherwise, the agencies of transportation,...
Strana 4 - ... receiving for sewing machine and hand work, I found that it came to a very few cents an hour. I shall never forget the feeling of pained surprise and indignation I experienced as I learned of the extent of that woman's toil from early morning till late at night, and figured out the pittance she received. The circumstance that it was Government work, and that the contracting firm was one of high repute in the city, did not lessen the resentment I felt. As I visited other homes and shops, I found...
Strana 91 - Said our Lady of the Snows. A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: 'Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own!
Strana 75 - His sight all nations, including our own, and all men, including ourselves, have left undone those things which they ought to have done and done those things which they ought not to have done.

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