The Claims of Labour

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Excerpt from The Claims of Labour: A Course of Lectures Delivered in Scotland in the Summer of 1886, on Various Aspects of the Labour ProblemHE present volume has arisen out of the Industrial Remuneration Conference held in the Prince's Hall, Piccadilly, in January of last year. The Report of that Conference has been published by Messrs Cassell Co., and in the preface there will be found an explanation of the purpose with which the scheme was initiated, and the manner in which it was carried out. It will be enough to repeat here that the general question proposed in the inquiry was, [s the present system whereby the products of industry are distributed between the various persons and classes of the community satisfactoiy P or, if not, are there any means by which that system could be improved 7 The anonymous donor of the fund from which the expenses of the Conference were defrayed, finding that a considerable balance of the thousand pounds set aside by him was returned by the original trus tees, asked me to undertake the task of disposing of this sum in whatever way should seem best fitted fix to carry on the inquiry.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.