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bnc_spoken.train#291
You see the T U C education er department is er rises from the demise of the N C L C but of course the the N C L C was really really good, first class tutors.
bnc_spoken.train#142
Apart from the essays
bnc_spoken.train#270
Now my twenty first birthday I'd never had a copper for weeks, w e hadn't got anything, anything at all, and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits.
bnc_spoken.train#19
Even though, I mean this doesn't say anything about unemployment levels, levels of unemployment.
bnc_spoken.train#244
We're still going.
bnc_spoken.train#14
I mean if we got a job somewhere out here then it clearly wouldn't be.
bnc_spoken.train#58
I'd got these figures down, but I hadn't really got anything against them, he just quickly went through the percentages so yes.
bnc_spoken.train#209
There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in, nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution, but there was a law you couldn't join a union till you were sixteen, that was the law then in then, but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in Dece...
bnc_spoken.train#320
And then he went from England as being High Commission, he went to Russia, to be the first Indian Ambassador in the Soviet Union and that were .
bnc_spoken.train#234
But we was all in and they was er they wasn't fifty per cent organized anyway near.
bnc_spoken.train#181
So how much could you earn in a week?
bnc_spoken.train#321
Do you remember much about other members of the I L P at the time, particular names ?
bnc_spoken.train#157
You want me to start again?
bnc_spoken.train#121
Alright, I don't recommend doing diagrams cos you spend five, five ten minutes drawing the diagram and explaining you know, what the curves are on it, erm, so you don't really need to draw, draw diagrams in these short answer questions.
bnc_spoken.train#286
So at this er time we decided we'd start er a little class in this we did.
bnc_spoken.train#122
Again that's only a general principle.
bnc_spoken.train#272
And anyway when we got back to England er we went to Aldershot, and wasn't there long.
bnc_spoken.train#268
I mean that's how communications were in them days.
bnc_spoken.train#186
Of course and that w oh I and ti and so anyway I started er work in August nineteen thirteen and er when December came around er there was a strike.
bnc_spoken.train#132
it will be assu it will be assumed that, yes
bnc_spoken.train#188
And er there was a er er one of the prominent factories was at .
bnc_spoken.train#199
And er now this chap him a wan he he was about ninety and him and his pal, they said, Well we'll lie in the, there were a lot of bull rushes, we'll lie in these bull rushes, he says, And we'll throw bricks at them as they go by, at these two police and er this blackleg.
bnc_spoken.train#210
Un until they were broke you know, after a week or two they got broke.
bnc_spoken.train#198
And it was a real big viaduct at , back of .
bnc_spoken.train#193
You know I don't know who wouldn't go.
bnc_spoken.train#296
Till he formed his new party.
bnc_spoken.train#247
And of course you know there are twenty odd fronts at where they were fighting, and er they made big paly of this because er the people who did volunteer knew, there was a few volunteered, they they gave them er white bands to wear round the arm to show that they was members of the relief force you know.
bnc_spoken.train#208
And er y y and it's surprising isn't it?
bnc_spoken.train#135
Not wanting to induce panicking .
bnc_spoken.train#260
The reason why we was there b it was because er there was so many deserters in our lot.
bnc_spoken.train#312
She said er, I was at a reception in London at the Indian Embassy and when er I was introduced as coming from , she says, The High Commission said to me, You come from ?
bnc_spoken.train#42
They are essentially government jobs.
bnc_spoken.train#307
Well his name was , a very brilliant man, well w he'd be nearly as old as me of course.
bnc_spoken.train#306
And er now this chap was , you never hear of him.
bnc_spoken.train#324
turn the fire up cos it's not very warm in here.
bnc_spoken.train#251
I don't know about the Jolly George.
bnc_spoken.train#213
Now the Co-op allowed, of course there was individual Co-ops then, this was Co-op, it wasn't like what had a big Co-op.
bnc_spoken.train#243
Er right are you?
bnc_spoken.train#230
Er you read a lot about women in the hosiery industry not being as willing to join the unions, was that true?
bnc_spoken.train#92
Increase in information about unem unemployment itself, that is a, that is a problem, people have this misapprehensions about the probability of getting a job
bnc_spoken.train#89
put more infrastructure in so that then the farmers can send their children to school rather than work on the land.
bnc_spoken.train#81
It's at its highest in rural areas, this is what's being done.
bnc_spoken.train#29
Because erm, the urban sector is normally considered to be capital intensive a sector, and the rural area in L D Cs are considered more labour intensive, and so erm, obviously when you get an influx of labour, and changes to the capital to labour ratio
bnc_spoken.train#65
Erm okay what was the importance of implication of er, Harrison model?
bnc_spoken.train#192
And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they'd be all the members there.
bnc_spoken.train#221
Now So anyway the strike er never reached a successful conclusion, this firm had it's blacklegs and er eventually closed because it couldn't carry on.
bnc_spoken.train#175
Now in nineteen er nineteen fifteen, the the of course the War'd started and I can remember this so well because the day after me birthday er there was a raid, a Zeppelin raid on and I saw this Zeppelin and that day the thirty first of January nineteen fifteen when this raid was, I wen I went to work at six in the mor...
bnc_spoken.train#318
You see that was nice wasn't it?
bnc_spoken.train#87
improve their wages through farming and perhaps
bnc_spoken.train#310
And er the years went by and al all I know is that he said ooh she's she's married a London doctor, you see.
bnc_spoken.train#211
And so th union er er issued er er a a leaflet affair and said that they'd be pleased to receive loans from any of the members.
bnc_spoken.train#264
We'd took incidentally which is not uninteresting it took us ten days to get to er Egypt, to get to Alexandria from er Plymouth, we went from Plymouth.
bnc_spoken.train#308
And er I've heard it mentioned about him on on on people who have interviewed him on television.
bnc_spoken.train#143
write anyway for thirty minutes
bnc_spoken.train#16
Now if we think of W U as being er, the expected value of the urban wage, and that equals the probability of getting a job, multiplied by the actual urban wages, alright then this probability of getting a job is going to be important as well.
bnc_spoken.train#228
And the general run of hosiery is that there is of course that there's a lot more females than males but in our side pretty equal.
bnc_spoken.train#163
But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination, and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen.
bnc_spoken.train#239
I don't think there's anything really amazing about me Army career, I didn't .
bnc_spoken.train#206
How how did you feel about trade unionism then?
bnc_spoken.train#189
Now it er they said that this chap had g had gone to work after an illness and the boss said, Well er you've been away six weeks, he said, There's no job here for you now.
bnc_spoken.train#283
But he was a real first class tutor.
bnc_spoken.train#304
On the theme that India must be free you see.
bnc_spoken.train#214
But they allowed all strikers er to have er free credit, free credit, and er well of course this six bob was what we got o practically on an ordinary weeks work, was about as well off on strike then and we was going to work you see.
bnc_spoken.train#232
All the women were, and that's true of of the hosiery industry, of course you've got a a there's a big distinction between the hosiery industry as such and the hosiery finishing industry which was then the, they're amalgamated now, but there were two entirely distinct unions, in tho Er as a matter of fact they n n they...
bnc_spoken.train#294
And er so I spent several years in the I L P as a secretary and at that time met er the people who ran the place.
bnc_spoken.train#290
And er I think er the retreat of the working class movement s i i is from the date when the N C L C was abolished, and opt into the General Council of the T U C.
bnc_spoken.train#224
And the factory where I work I should think we took about fourteen of the men at this factory.
bnc_spoken.train#236
So anyway I er the War came and went but before it went I was in, went int eh Army of course.
bnc_spoken.train#274
Warning us all about this, so well I thought well if they warn us, something must be good here, if they're warning us that it's bad you know.
bnc_spoken.train#300
There was a a s an Indian student came to and he was a prospective Labour candidate, but the Labour Party prevented him from being a candidate er because er his main theme in life was to try and get India free from you know the British Empire.
bnc_spoken.train#302
And er so this student came to and I organized a conference and took the chair for him you know and er and helped him every possible way.
bnc_spoken.train#317
He says, Well you tell him from me that I shall never forget.
bnc_spoken.train#194
Er with the addition of a lot of of members of the public who sympathized and knew what was happening.
bnc_spoken.train#275
And so when I er I wen I went back to work.
bnc_spoken.train#200
And er he tells me he says, Well we night that we were going to do it, meeting them from work it w it was getting dark of course, December, he said that there was only me turned up.
bnc_spoken.train#176
This wasn't regular, the real hour was half past six until six o'clock but when we were very busy you could stop you know as long as you like nobody'd ever bother.
bnc_spoken.train#167
And er me job there was turning sock what you'd call halfoes you know mens' socks, from one side to the other on a piece of wood, you know you'd pull the stocking onto this wood, put your finger on the back, turned it over and threw it down.
bnc_spoken.train#77
A policy of cross-training,for all areas.
bnc_spoken.train#273
But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway, and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers, and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the t...
bnc_spoken.train#56
I put erm, studies by Helen and Tate, nineteen eighty three, found public sector employment averaged forty four percent of non-agricultural employment in twenty L D Cs and in extreme cases were Tanzania and Zambia, were as high as seventy eight and eighty one percent respectively.
bnc_spoken.train#170
That's two and half pence in today's money.
bnc_spoken.train#282
So I used to go with him, and incidently he was a, he was very good on classical music, although we never went into this although I'd got very close to him but I'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know, and never talked about this but I'm sure he was.
bnc_spoken.train#262
And then so we went from Ireland er to er to Egypt.
bnc_spoken.train#284
Well so we went to the I L P and er at this time we started getting er a class together in the, where I worked there was a hundred men and hundred lads, approximately.
bnc_spoken.train#240
I don't know whether I was a good soldier or not, but I went to Egypt and the Sudan.
bnc_spoken.train#215
But what I was going to tell you about this loan and I was there on this Friday morning when we were drawing our money, and the men were bringing their their s life savings to lend to the union.
bnc_spoken.train#238
Came back in twenty one.
bnc_spoken.train#138
Don't bother doing diagrams, get a sentence in on everything you know, right although it's not
bnc_spoken.train#202
He said of course I scampered through these bull rushes, they never saw me they never caught me and they never ever knew who it was who'd done it, see.
bnc_spoken.train#261
But they took what few they'd got left on our regiment to Ireland so nobody else'd desert, while they rounded the others up and took them to Ireland you see.
bnc_spoken.train#139
Well, that doesn't sound very sophisticated to say, these are the questions when you just write everything you know about a particular issue.
bnc_spoken.train#107
Right now, although the determinals in industrial specialization within countries, alright, now although you can't really define that, you might be able to say something about industrial specialization.
bnc_spoken.train#217
But I saw him with his cap full of golden sovereigns and turned on the table and lent them all he'd got.
bnc_spoken.train#191
And he got the sack so the firm came on strike.
bnc_spoken.train#66
There was one policy implication.
bnc_spoken.train#267
And er if you were interested in football you'd never know till Tuesday morning what had happened on that Saturday, the previous Saturday.
bnc_spoken.train#60
And developed countries averaged twenty four percent, so it's twice as much as developed countries.
bnc_spoken.train#301
And er he he was having a conference in , course with dropping out of the Labour Party, the Labour Party finished with him and didn't bother and anyw he he someone I don't know who it was, it wasn't him himself but someone told me that he was looking for somebody to organize this conference in , so I said, Well I I'll ...
bnc_spoken.train#5
Why have you just discounted it to there?
bnc_spoken.train#293
I could say a lot about ho , but anyway we started this and we used to go to the I L P, and we used to get packed meetings there on a Sunday night, and s then about nineteen, course we had the general strike, and through the general strike we was both in the I L P and we were doing everything we could you know, distrib...
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