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Factory Laws, Fair Wages resolutions, Trade Unionism itself, are...all Protection – not the Protection of Mr. Chaplin, the landlord, nor of Mr. Chamberlain, the demagogue, but the Protection of the Socialist.

— Ramsay MacDonald The Zollverein and British Industry (1903)

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Felt the virtues of the Victorian times so condemned by Mr Strachey. The simple honesties can always be made a butt by the impish unrealiabilites.

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If we yield now to the TUC we shall never be able to call our bodies or souls or intelligences our own.

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