Their union, therefore, with persons in private firms seems to me justified in order to raise their general economic level; and I do not see the justice of prohibiting it as was done by the Baldwin Government in the Trades Disputes Act of 1927.
Laski defends the right of public service employees to unionize to improve their economic conditions, criticizing past government actions against it.
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The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
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