Harold J. Laski: “I see no reason why all the industrial employees of the government, postmen, for instance, or shipwrights in a national…”

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.