Excerpt from Labour Unrest: The Debate in the House of Lords, February and March, 1919
Never before, perhaps, in British industrial history have the relations between employers and employed assumed a character more challenging to national progress and social stability. On one of these critical days Lord Buckmaster rose in his place in the House of Lords to move that there be laid before the House "Papers relating to the present industrial and economic conditions." His speech on February 18, with the speeches that followed it and those delivered when the debate was resumed on February 19, February 25 and March 4, attracted much attention on the part of that section of the public that has leisure to watch the course of events. But the voices and pens of public men were active in many directions at the time; and intelligence from the Peace Conference filled columns of the Press. It may well be that this debate in the Upper Chamber, so comprehensive in its survey, so suggestive in its argument, so indicative of progressive tendency, has been overlooked by many who would profit by intimate knowledge of its outstanding features. The occasion for reprinting the speeches, even in a form somewhat condensed, will be generally recognised.
In deference to considerations of paper restrictions, arguments have been abbreviated, and a considerable amount of statistical illustration has been deleted; but what remains may be regarded as an accurate version.
The vital significance of the state of affairs in the world of labour depends upon the truth or falseness of the assertion, categorically put forth, that the people of this country are distrustful both of the future and of the men given the task of shaping that future. If such be so, the speeches here republished may serve to remove, at least to modify, that distrust. It is with that end in view that this volume has been prepared.
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