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The author discusses the conflict over nationalization as an economic policy in London, England. The proposal for nationalization of the British industries is from White Paper titled "The Regeneration of British Industry," by the Labour Party. It is stated that the paper deals mainly with planning agreements of assistance between major companies. The author suggests that the concerned parties should be wise and informed in making decisions about the economy.

Information about the annual general meeting of the British Ecological Society held at the University College in London on January 6-7, 1949 and its thirty-fourth annual meeting held at Bristol University in London on January 9, 1948 are presented. Various woods and rare plants in Great Britain were discussed in the 1949 event accompanied by exhibits of various photographs of species while the 1948 meeting was about hydrography and ecology.

This article discusses a study which examined the relation between science and atheism in London, England during the mid-Victorian period. The paper described what atheists did in the 1860s, their ideology, and their total commitment to the task of making every thinking man and woman an atheist. The mid-Victorian atheist delighted in the use of words, but his shades of meaning in using terms such as atheist, freethinker, secularist are elusive to the historian. In connection with this a nomenclature was suggested. An atheist might deny the existence of God, or he might refuse to do this on the grounds that the word God had no meaning for him. Freethinkers declined to accept the divine inspiration of the bible and he would have included amongst freethinkers the atheists, Unitarians, and a growing number of liberal Christians. The secularist was a freethinker who combined thought with action and aspired by concerted effort with his fellow freethinkers to expose religion to the logic of material facts. Science was studied by working-class atheists because they loved learning for its own sake, and additional motivation came from its usefulness in proving the scripture to be wrong. In conclusion the paper saw science as an alternative to religion for the thinking working man.

The article offers information about the annual meeting of the British Ecological Society at the University College in London, England, on January 5-6, 1939. Professor Tansley explained how pressure of work had made him unable to prepare a speech, and how the Council had made arrangements for it to be read at a meeting at Easter. Resignation of Mrs. Hand was accepted and Elflyn Hughes was elected as a new member of the society.

Presents information about the second international colloquium organized by the Society for the Study of Labour History, that was held in June 1968 at Birkbeck College in London, England. Similarities of language at the colloquium; Fits among the pairs of British and American papers presented at the colloquium; Juxtaposition of the descriptions of the different influences exerted on labor and on the labor movement in the U.S. and Great Britain.

The article discusses the highlights of the annual general meeting of the British Ecological Society on May 23, 1914 held in the Botanical Lecture Theatre at University College in London, England. Several officers were elected including professor F. W. Oliver, W. B. Crump and O. V. Darbishire. A general statement of the financial position of the Society up to December 31, 1913 was presented by the treasurer. Society president, A. G. Tansley, delivered an address citing the Society's achievements.

The article focuses on one of the leading merchant-planter families of Antigua, the Olivers family. Dr Vere Langford Oliver, a descendant and author of "The History of the Island of Antigua," has compiled data on five Richard Olivers. The first two were brothers and partners who lived in Bristol; Richard I was a linen-draper and merchant who traded to Virginia and owned plantations beyond the seas while Richard II was also a linen-draper and merchant as well as burgess. Richard Ill, his second son, was born in Bristol in 1664. He was probably the Richard Oliver who became a merchant and planter in Antigua. He was very influential in the island community. The most prominent member of the family was the fifth Richard Oliver, Alderman and Member of Parliament for the City of London. Alderman Oliver was born in Antigua in 1735, the son of Rowland and Sarah Oliver but at an early age he came to London and entered his uncle's counting house. Richard Oliver IV had a transaction business in London as a single proprietor from about 1744 to 1761. On 25 April 1761, he took into partnership his son-in-law and nephew and gave him a mutual interest with himself in the business of the house, which was thenceforward carried on in the name and under the firm of Richard and Richard Oliver.

This article discusses various developments related to the field of accounting. In Great Britain, the Association of University Teachers of Accounting held its 1950 conference at Manchester University in September. The secretary of the Association is David Solomons of the London School of Economics. In the George Washington University, Ralph Dale Kennedy, currently head of the department of business administration, has been named head of the newly created department of accounting. In Catholic University of America, District of Columbia, Richard J. Bannon has been appointed instructor in accounting. In University of Alabama, Alabama, Richard Brewer is on leave for the current year teaching at the University of Hawaii. Lee Glover from Hawaii is teaching here on an exchange basis. At University of San Francisco, California, A. D. McNeil, director of CPA training, addressed the California Society of CPA's on the impact of accounting on government and business, at their annual meeting in San Francisco in June.

Sweating is not peculiar to one country nor, indeed, to one continent. In many countries, the problem has engaged the earnest attention of the government during the last few years with none of the accumulated problems of centuries of neglect, has been forced to take drastic steps to deal with the evil. It is, in fact, a product of the evolution of modern industry, and the same causes which have operated in Great Britain have given it birth or preserved its existence in other countries. Hence, though caution is always necessary in attempting to apply the experience of one country to the circumstances of another, the problem is so alike in its essentials in all parts of the world that an account of the measures taken to solve it in Great Britain may be of service elsewhere. It is typical of the change which has been effected in public knowledge that during the last half century the definition of the somewhat opprobrious term "sweating" has been widened and modified. Originally it was applied to the system of subcontracting in the clothing trade, in which undoubtedly in early days the middleman made his profit by forcing his employees to work under revolting conditions in unsanitary workshops for the lowest of wages. But later experience has shown that low wages and the other evils were not confined to the tailoring industry nor to a system of subdivided manufacture.

Relates experience of the author on participating in a works committee meeting of Fred. Olsen Ltd. in Great Britain. Composition of the committee; Involvement works committee in the running of a company; Factors contributing to the higher morale of Fred. Olsen.

The article focuses on the National Industrial Relations Court in Great Britain that came into existence on December 1, 1971, with Commencement Order No. 3 under the Industrial Relations Act of that year. The Court began its life with a backlog of work in the form of 48 appeals from industrial tribunals concerning the Redundancy Payments Act-appeals which were then still waiting for a hearing in the High Court in London, England or in the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland. It proceeded to dispose of the bulk of these with sittings in the new Industrial Court premises in London and Edinburgh. It also began to hear redundancy appeals lodged directly from December 1 onwards, so that it was with the Redundancy Payments Act rather than the Industrial Relations Act that the Court was primarily concerned in this period. Of the 34 new cases received in the 3 months December to February, no fewer than 31 were redundancy appeals. So far as the image of the court presented to the public was concerned, it must have seemed as if the policy of "non-co-operation" with the act was working.

The article discusses a public inquiry into the proposed Third Airport of Stansted, England which was ordered by the British Minister of Housing and Local Government and held in Chelmsford, England from December 8, 1965 to February 11, 1966. According to the article, controversy about the airport involved matters of air traffic safety, terrain, noise, the agricultural industry, and the airport's potential proximity to London, England. Topics include urban planning for London, England, a report published in March 1964 from aviation industry officials, and groups objecting to the airport.

The article presents information on the Annual Meeting of the Standing Conference on Studies in Education that was held in the New Lecture Theatre, at King's College London, England on December 17, 1971. Its theme, introduced by Professor J.R. Webster, of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, was based on the role of education as an undergraduate study. In opening the discussion one of the speakers suggested that the traditional concern of UDEs, the postgraduate certificate course, did not provide a basis for either a rigorous study of education or a training for research workers. The PGCE course was too brief, the backgrounds of the students taking it too varied and, most problematic of all, when training teachers it was necessary to show a direct and immediate relationship between theory and practice. It was sometimes suggested that UDEs should abandon teacher training altogether and concentrate on research. A more fruitful approach was the introduction of undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses so that UDEs became ordinary university departments who were also involved in the initial and in-service training of teachers.