Western Clarion
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contributor: Pritchard, W.A.
issued: 2018-11-22
issued: 1915-10-01
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note: WEST OWNED AND CONTBOLLED BY THE S. F. OF C. The Official Organ of the SOCIALIST PA :~ ' ' I t % CANADA * mm 774 VANCOUVER, B.C., OCTOBER, 1.915 PER YEAR $I.OO Historical Significance of Magna Charta and Burning of John Huss. While the eyes of the English- speaking world were focussed upon the "Magna Charta," here and there, in Europe and America, obscure Bohemian sects were commemorating the BURNING OF JOHN HUSS. During the two centuries which had elapsed since the signing of that historic document a fundamental change had occurred in the economic life of European society. Great trading cities arose whose citizens carried the surplus wealth of one community to another and returned with foreign wares. Silver and gold were being more extensively mined; manufacturing of woollen goods was developing, so that towns grew up around the enterprise. As early as 1351 coal was being mined in Newcastle, and merchants were, a little later, trading in this new fuel. These industries called into being a class of artisans demanding a recompense not found in the crude and loosely jointed feudal system: the wage slave sprang into .existence. The new industries also found themselves hampered by a social organisation based upon land tenure. A. merchant carrying, say, coal from Newcastle to London, having a dispute with his customer, found no legal machinery to adjudicate his claim in feudal jurisprudence,where disputes were settle'd by the Lord of the Manor, or his appointees principally and involved private and personal rights. The further consideration of In Two Parts. By J. D. Harrington. II.—THE BURNING OF JOHN HUSS men being tied to the land found the disputants within the realm of a single overlord. But the merchant and his customer had many manors between them and their dispute, perhaps, a national and public right—a trading privilege. Consequently, the King's judical appointee appears to adjudicate. Thus it will be seen that as trading and industry developed, the need oi a cen…
note: missing November 1915 edition
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Vancouver (B.C.)
identifier: AN .W3
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374254
language: English
lat: 49.261111
long: -123.113889
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : The Socialist Party of Canada
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. AN .W3
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