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  THE HISTORY OF MONEY Abraham Lincoln's Greenback Dollar
Lincoln agreed to try this solution and printed 450 million dollars worth of the new bills using green ink on the back to distinguish them from other notes.
Lincoln's opposition to the central banks financial control and a proposed return to the gold standard is well documented.
Lincoln By Emil Ludwig 1930, containing a letter from Lincoln, also reprinted in Glory to God and the Sucker Democracy A Manuscript Collection of the Letters of Charles H. Lanphier compiled by Charles C. Patton.
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  Democratic Labour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Democratic Labour was a minor political party operating in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.
They were formed by the Labour MP, Dick Taverne when his Constituency Labour Party (Lincoln) asked him to stand down as their candidate at the next general election.
He continued to serve as Lincoln MP until the October, 1974 general election when he was defeated (Wilson demanding the Labour Party "threw the kitchen sink" at Lincoln to get him out).
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 Labour Movement In Guyana
The British Guiana Labour Union (BGLU) was formed on January 11, 1919.Critchlow headed the organization which did not gain recognition until one year after the passage of the Trade Union Ordinance.
In 1964, the Labour Relations Bill intoduced by the Jagan led PPP government resulted in a strike and the withdrawal of the bill.
Lincoln Lewis, an afro-Guyanese, attacked and accused the PPP administration and traditional PPP aligned unions.
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 Earl Schwartz | 'A poor hand to quote Scripture': Lincoln and Genesis 3:19 | Journal of the Abraham Lincoln ...
Lincoln's response to his "friend's" claim, as he told an audience in mid-July, was to "try it again," concluding his address with a vigorous defense of human equality, cast as a homily on the verse "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which in heaven is perfect" (Matt.
Lincoln recalled having written in late 1847; next, in a response to a resolution of support he had received from a delegation of Baptist missionaries, written in May 1864; third, in a short autobiographical anecdote he arranged to have published in December 1864; and finally, in his Second Inaugural Address, delivered in March 1865.
Lincoln's inference that it is a wholly appropriate and "worthy" object of good government to assist workers in securing the "whole product" of their labor suggests a personal connection to working people and comfort with political activism on their behalf that went far beyond Wayland's tepid affirmation of workers rights.
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 Biography
He resigned from the Labour Party and parliament and established the Lincoln Democratic Labour Association for his supporters.
He was a leading social democratic thinker, writing The Future of the Left - Lincoln and After in 1972, and his political manouverings in the 1970s foreshadowed those of the SDP in the 1980s.
Taverne lost his seat in parliament at the October 1974 general election, but he continued to remain active with the Democratic Labour Association until it folded after the 1979 general election.
www.europabio.org /InfoDay/Biographies/CV-Taverne.htm   (446 words)

  
 Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln told the nation that from the 1st January, 1863, all slaves in states or parts of states, still in rebellion, would be freed.
Lincoln was encouraged by the army's victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but was dismayed by the news of the Draft Riots in several American cities.
Lincoln defended his decision by telling Zachariah Chandler, one of the bill's supporters, that it was a question of time: "this bill was placed before me a few minutes before Congress adjourns.
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 Proudhon's Libertarian Thought and the Anarchist Movement by L. Gambone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Association is a bond which is naturally opposed to liberty, and which nobody consents to submit, unless it furnishes sufficient indemnification...
These associations were to be run on a democratic basis, otherwise workers would find themselves subordinated just as with capitalist industry.
The democratic countries were, in spite of the massacre of the commune, fundamentally liberal.
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 Europe's Political Earthquakes Of 1992 - The World and I Magazine
The four-party coalition of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats, and Liberal that has governed Italy during most of the past decade has been unable to bring under control a staggering public deficit and a relatively high rate of inflation-problems that loom large in anticipation of the European Community's monetary union.
The Labour Party was the principal recipient of lost Tory votes; the swing vote from Tory to Labour was estimated at 3 percent.
Labour, instead, appeared to benefit from an electoral campaign waged on the issued that appealed to the economically bereaved voter: health-care system reform and the negative effects of regressive taxation.
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 publicpower :: The Ontario NDP   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
5.04 Each constituency association shall be governed by an executive, which shall consist of a minimum of six (6) officers, namely a president, a vice-president, a secretary, a chief financial officer, a membership organizer, and a youth officer.
To have the right to be a delegate, and to have the right to vote in the election of delegates, a person must be an individual member of the Party whose application for membership was received by the Secretary of the Party at least thirty (30) days prior to the date the delegates are elected.
For purposes of delegate entitlement a member may be counted as well in the constituency association in which he or she is entitled to be counted as well in the constituency association in which he or she is a member in accordance with Article 8.07 (b).
www.publicpower.ca /the_party/constitution.htm   (3963 words)

  
 The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and the Issue of Race
Lincoln responded by strenuously denying the charge, and by arguing that because slavery was the chief cause of miscegenation in the United States, restricting its further spread into the western territories and new states would, in fact, reduce the possibility of race mixing.
I want mechanics and labourers, earnest, honest, and sober men, for the interest of a generation, it may be of mankind, are involved in the success of this experiment, and with the approbation of the American people, and under the blessing of Almighty God, it cannot, it shall not fail.
Lincoln did not ignore the ever louder calls for decisive action.72 On June 19, he signed a law abolishing slavery in all the federal territories.73 At the same time, he was quietly preparing an even more dramatic measure.
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 E–deliberation and local governance
This manifests itself through the process of finding a political or democratic role for a technology rather than letting the normative moral, ethical and political arguments inform the use and development of that technology; a kind of reverse technological determinism which Raymond Williams (1974) has described as "symptomatic technology" and Andrew Feenberg as "instrumentalism" [15].
In that scenario rather than democratise, such a situation would only ever tend to produce a diminution of civil society by the state, and thus have the opposite effect by limiting democratic rigour.
By encouraging a more associational model of civil society that was nourished by governmental support — but at arms length from it — the balance of state and civil society would be protected.
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 Democratic Government, to Conclusion of "Scientific Economics and the Art of Government," Proportional Representation, ...
Democratic Government, to Conclusion of "Scientific Economics and the Art of Government," Proportional Representation, Abolish Press Oligopoly, Land Charges sufficient; Ss.
Under this system which applies for the lower houses in Australia and elsewhere throughout the world, up to 49% of electors can be disenfranchised and only about two policies are presented to the elector.
There is not even a hint that the basic human right is for all people to have equality of opportunity to apply their labour to the earth - the land of their country.
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 Politics and Culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In the England of the industrial revolution, and then in the young United States of America, he finds that the public is increasingly important in the staging of socially-stabilising funerals, but that it is more reliable than the state officials in its instincts about the myths and icons which can achieve this stability.
Lincoln's funeral reversed the trend of state funerals being experienced through mediations, through representation in the mass media, rather than by being physically present at the theatrical scene itself.
Such a study might have been more useful to me. My own mother was recently buried, and I have yet to recover from a funeral service in which symbols of public (especially militaristic) significations quite obliterated the meaning of her unique and personal existence.
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 Sikka1d
In their trade association role, they are the promoters, protectors and defenders of accountants and lawyers.
Complaints have to be lodged with the accountancy and the law trade associations that were formed to advance the economic interests of their members.
It is evident that the accountancy and law trade associations have a direct interest in the outcome of the disciplinary hearings.
www.sec.gov /rules/proposed/s71300/sikka1d.htm   (20067 words)

  
 Anarchism and Elections
That's one reason, therefore to oppose parliamentary elections - parliament is not democratic, no matter what political party is elected to government their room for manoeuvre is extremely limited.
In short a campaign had been built which had rendered the charge uncollectable and unenforceable, 2 years into the campaign over 50% of households were refusing to pay the unjust charge and the campaign was very much on winning ground.
As an example of the problems associated with both a lack of a system of recallability and a dependence on electing the 'great man (or woman)' to sort out the problem, the service charges issue demonstrated quite clearly the shortcomings of parliamentary democracy.
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 General Election Results 1885-1979   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Labour Unionist - candidate of the Ulster Unionist Labour Association
In 1931, the Independent Labour Party was still officially part of the Labour Party but refused to accept the Standing Orders of the Parliamentary Labour Party; in addition, several Labour candidates were members of the ILP but sponsored by local parties.
Of the five Coalition Labour candidates, only two actually received a Coalition ‘Coupon’ and were official, but the other three were full supporters of the Coalition and had no Coalition candidate put up against them.
www.election.demon.co.uk /geresults.html   (687 words)

  
 Thai Labour Campaign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Trade unions in Thailand cannot be independent as long as they require registration and certification from the government and have to obtain permission from their employers under the current ‘tripartite' laws regulating trade unions in Thailand.
It would be a pity if unions in Thailand do not take advantage of the current political situation to open discussion forums with their members by conducting studies, and finally searching for the actual definition of what is their real conception of “democracy”.
Thus, I feel that we should view national democracy with a view of union democracy, even though it is still in a premature state and is being used and manipulated by few corrupted leaders for their own benefits.
www.thailabour.org /wnews/060320a.html   (1843 words)

  
 The Militant - 1/26/98 -- Civil War Opened New Era For U.S. Class Struggle
The first is addressed to Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States, just after his reelection in 1864.
The contest for the territories which opened the dire epopee, was it not to decide whether the virgin soil of immense tracts should be wedded to the labour of the emigrant or prostituted by the tramp of the slave-driver?
They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single- minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.
www.themilitant.com /1998/623/623_22.html   (672 words)

  
 Index Lo-Ly
She was member of the Kongsberg town council (1976-88) and mayor of Kongsberg (1984-88), board chairman of the National Directorate of Labour (1986-94), and minister of local government and regional development (1997-99).
A Democrat, he was a state legislative staffer in 1969, a King County councilman (1975-78), then elected to Congress from the liberal Seattle district for a decade (1978-88), a loser in Senate races to Daniel Evans in 1983 and Slade Gorton in 1988, then a 52% winner in the Democratic annus mirabilis of 1992.
As a labourer, he became involved in the trade union movement in 1969, rising to become president of a metallurgists' union in 1975.
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 Political Parties Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Democratic Party of Socialists - This is the website of the manifesto of the President of Montenegro, the smaller republic in the Yugoslav Federation.
Democratic Party of Kenya - Promises a coalition government, a more buoyant economy, constitutional reform and women in high offices after the 2002 elections.
Formerly the "Democratic Party", merged with the New National Party and the Federal Alliance in late 2000 to form the DA.
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 Ancaster-Dundas-Flamborough-Aldershot New Democratic Party Riding Association: New Information
It incudes Lincoln Alexander, Maude Barlow, Sylvia Bashevkin, Carolyn Bennett, Ed Broadbent, June Callwood, Karen Kain, Robin Matthews, Lorne Nystrom, Sylvia Ostrey, Walter Pitman, Judy Rebick, Claude Ryan, and Lois Wilson.
While concerns persist about Proportional Representation, they are not strong enough to offset the readily visible problems associated with the First Past the Post voting system.
Despite its elegance and the passion of its adherents, Denis Pilon admits that it can satisfy no one - "it is too democratic for elite reformers and not democratic enough for the grassroots." It is certainly far removed from Ontario traditions.
www.ndpadfaw.ca /pr.rpt.html   (6194 words)

  
 Division of Labour: April 2005 Archives
Our measure of corruption is NOT strongly correlated with Fraser Institute (originally wrongly associated with Simon-Fraser University - thanks Robert Lawson for the reminder) index of economic freedom (oops: earlier I mistakenly claimed this was the Fraser Index of corruption).
Obviously much of the decline is associated with the declining real value of the minimum wage, but if monopsony was a significant feature of labor markets then the monopsony firm would gladly maintain wages at $5.15 per hour rather than paying rates above the minimum wage.
I speak not of liberalism as we know it now, which is bound up with state management and democratic relativism, but liberalism of an older variety that placed it hopes in society, faith, and freedom.
www.divisionoflabour.com /archives/2005_04.php   (9368 words)

  
 Scoop: Democratic Freedoms at Risk under ARC
To add insult to democratic injury, on 18 February an ARC staff member wrote to the Office of the Ombudsman requesting clarification on the Council’s obligation to answer questions as part of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act.
Democratic principles under the Local Government Act (2002) require local authorities to act in an open, transparent, and democratically accountable manner.
United Future Leader and Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne took charge off this strategy and today released a discussion document 'Towards a New Zealand Medicines Strategy'.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/AK0402/S00180.htm   (2128 words)

  
 Battle of Adowa - pt2 -explorer
  The presidents of Haiti, Ethiopia and Liberia were made honorary members of the Pan-African Association at this conference (Esedebe 1982).
  Following trade with the early merchant adventurers who came to the Gold Coast, the first formal association of Britain with our country was effected by the famous Bond of 1844, which accorded Britain trading rights in the country.
Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, lets one know that he was aware of the experiences of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
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 Seats changing hands at General Elections since 1974
1 Lincoln Democratic Labour Association gain from Labour
1 Labour gain from Lincoln Democratic Labaour Association
2 Social Democratic and Labour Party gains from Ulster Unionist
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 CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings
Community Activities: Serves on the Provincial Council for Easter Seals; chair of the Business Improvement Area in Port Colborne; chair of the Youth Justice Steering Committee; Treasurer of the Lincoln County Bar Association; board member of other organizations including Port Cares, United Way, Healthy Lifestyles Coalition, and the Lincoln County Humane Society.
Former member: Ontario County and District President's Association; Ports Canada advisory board; Community Futures board; chair Regional Niagara Chamber of Commerce; Big Brothers/Big Sisters; Kinsman Club.
Took labour studies at the Welland campus of Niagara College
www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/204   (899 words)

  
 Trade Unions and Organizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
International Federation of Workers' Education Associations (IFWEA) - Israel.
National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians - CWA
National Association of Letter Carriers, Boulder, Louisville and Lafayette CO, Branch 642
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 The International Workingmen's Association
To the Executive Committee of the General Association of German Workers
On the Dissolution of the Lassallean Workers' Association (E) Oct 3
To the Workers' and Peasants' Association of Lower Lombardy in Lodi
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