Report on Labor Situation of the Netherlands, 1919 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Report on Labor Situation of the Netherlands, 1919 Among the most significant events in the political history of the Netherlands during the past two years have been (a) the constitutional reforms of 1917, (b)the results of the elections of July, 1918, and (c)the Revolutionary gesture made in November of that year by P.J. Troelstra, who has long been the guiding spirit of the more moderate socialists and the successful opponent of the radical wing in his union and in party. The first of these, the constitutional reforms, included universal manhood suffrage with 23 as the voting age, the removal of the constitutional obstacle to womens suffrage, which now awaits only legislative formulation, and the limitation of the powers of the First Chamber to those implied in a suspensive veto. The second, the elections of July, 1918, which were the first held under the revised constitution and hence the first test of the popular will under conditions of universal manhood suffrage with proportional representation and compulsory voting, resulted in the return of 26 Socialists to the Second Chamber which numbers 100 members in all, and of 3 Socialists to the upper chamber which numbers 50 members. The third, Troelstra´s Revolutionary gesture, while abortive as a revolutionary move was not without its effect, since it added momentum to the pressure for legislation in favor of women´s suffrage, of the substitution of 8 hours in place of 11 as the legal working day, and of the abolition of the first chamber. Participation of the Organized Worker in These Events To each of these events organized labor was an important contributing factor. Electoral reform has been one of the cardinal demands on the program and a part of the propaganda of union labor in the Netherlands for almost fifty years, and its institution was due largely to the election of a parliament in which the conservatives were ousted from control by means of an understanding between the liberals and the representatives of the socialist parties with which the trade unions were closely allied. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
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