JSSISI: 1912 to 1919, Vol. XIII, Parts XCIII to XCVII
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2024-03-24T20:59:08ZWeights and measures after the war
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Weights and measures after the war
Stanuell, Charles A.
In my judgment the United Kingdom will be successful
in the present awful struggle, but the country will suffer
great injury to many trades and manufactures. We shall
also be liable for enormous debts contracted in carrying out
the greatest and most expensive war which has ever yet
desolated the world.
In fact our resources as regards population, producing power,
and wealth will have been diminished, while at the
same time we shall have incurred fresh and enormous
liabilities. The National Debt will be at least ten times as
great as it was before the war, perhaps twenty times as
much, and the nation will have to bear the strain of raising
the interest upon this enormous debt while our trade and
commerce will have been seriously damaged or impaired by
the general disturbance caused by the war in all commercial
matters. We must contemplate the rebuilding of a half ruined
Empire, and to do this we have not only to restore
our former business, but to develop it still further.
This, in my judgment, can only be done by increasing
our trade, our commerce, our general sources of income as
derived from our own and other countries, and at the same
time removing, so far as we can do so, all possible hindrances
to the spread of our trade with other nations.
Read June 8, 1917
1917-01-01T00:00:00ZTrades boards as a means of adjusting wages disputes and promoting trade interests
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Trades boards as a means of adjusting wages disputes and promoting trade interests
O'Connell, John Robert
In a time like the present, when the differences between
Capital and Labour appear to be more than ordinarily
acute, it seems opportune to invite the attention of this
Society to those Acts of Parliament, some of which
have now been in force for some ten years, which seem
to suggest the possibility of one method of drawing closer
together those whose interest in an industry is that of an
employer and those whose interest is that of a worker. So
far as I am aware, this Society has up to the present not
had under its consideration the Trade Boards Act, 1909
(9 Edwd. VII., Ch. 22), the Trade Boards Provisional
Orders Confirmation Act, 1913 (3 & 4 Geo. V., Ch. 67).
or the Trade Boards Act, 1918 (8 & 9 George: V., Ch. 32),
which constitute a code of legislation designed to obviate
trade disputes in respect of wages by setting up Boards
consisting partly of representatives of employers and partly
of representatives of workers, together with certain independent
persons appointed by the Ministry of Labour, who
are empowered to fix minimum wages for all persons
employed in the various trades to which the Acts apply.
Read May 30th, 1919,
1919-01-01T00:00:00ZThe study of Irish economic history
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The study of Irish economic history
Chart, D.A.
The subject of this evening's paper is not one which has
frequently attracted the attention of members of this
society. This is regrettable in many ways. Often a proper
treatment of disease is impossible without an adequate history
of the patient. Economic problems cannot be solved
unless economic history is studied. Yet Irish economic
history, in the full sense of the word, is still unwritten.
A few pioneers have dealt with special periods, or with
isolated aspects of the subject. But the main work still
remains untouched, awaiting perhaps some Lecky of the
future. Perhaps in the meantime it may be of interest to
indicate briefly what the study of this somewhat neglected
subject might reveal, and in how many ways it might help
those whose efforts aim at the amelioration of the conditions
of life in this country.
Read May 2nd, 1919
1919-01-01T00:00:00ZState insurance and mother's pensions
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State insurance and mother's pensions
Dickie, Alfred
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, the subject that
I wish to bring before you this evening is one of great
interest to the public in general, and especially to a Society
like this. From the statistics supplied from your department,
Mr. President, it appears that for the last quarter
the deaths have exceeded the births by a considerable
amount.
If this continues it will be disastrous to the country.
Now, we may not be able to increase the birth-rate, as that
depends on economic and other causes which we cannot by
any action on our part effect. But we can and ought to
take all possible measures to ensure that every child born
into this world has a proper chance of growing up and
growing into an efficient citizen.
Read April 14th, 1919
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