Max Aitken Quotes
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
Aitken, Max. Success. Stanley Paul & Co., 1921.
Internal population movement was tightly controlled in China for fear that the huge body of rural peasants would swamp the cities seeking economic opportunity. In 2000 the Chinese were debating the wisdom of this policy.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. In the late 19th century the 12 hour work day was typical and it was 6 days a week. To reform labor hours it was not enough to argue the effect on the individual and the family. It had to be argued as a solution to the unemployment problem as well.
William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC, ONB, generally known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production.
