单词 | workers' committee |
释义 | > as lemmasworkers' committee a. Compounds with workers' or workers (chiefly in sense 3d), as workers' committee, workers' flat, workers' movement, workers' rights, etc. Π 1874 Rep. Inspectors Factories 1873 136 in Parl. Papers (C. 937) XIII. 1 The cotton manufacturers could have been induced to compromise the whole question for a 57 hours bill, and the workers committee for a 56. 1906 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 138 269/2 I do not believe in workers' flats. I think that one of the worst things we could possibly do is to encourage men engaged in casual employment to live in a congested condition in the towns. 1922 E. M. Fergusson Church-School Admin. iv. 94 The whole company of workers should then be firmly organized into a workers' council. 1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 39 We'll turn all the churches into workers' clubs. 1935 Time 17 June 38/1 The Depression-born movement of workers' theatres. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. viii. 51 The Red Army is still showing what a workers' republic can do. 1961 G. F. Kennan Russia & West iv. 55 Was it thinkable, it was asked, that a workers' government should accept aid from capitalist governments? 1995 Our Times Aug. 43/2 An industrial skyline encircled by vast workers' neighbourhoods. 1997 Bangkok Post 26 Feb. i. 5/6 The workers marched..to the US embassy to ask that Cambodia not be granted special trading status unless factory owners respect workers rights. 2001 Sleazenation Dec. 53/1 Discernable anarchist tendencies began to influence the burgeoning workers' movement of the later nineteenth century. < as lemmas |
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