Quite frankly, I should have liked to see a general strike proclaimed against the outbreak of war in 1914; and I conceive the power to act in that way as a necessary and wise protection of a people against a government which proposes such adventures.
Laski expresses his support for a general strike against the outbreak of war in 1914 as a protective measure for the people.
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