Labour in Chains: The Peril of Industrial Conscription.

by Philip Snowden

16 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1917

About the author

Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, PC was an English politician. A strong speaker, he became popular in trade union circles for his denunciation of capitalism as unethical and his promise of a socialist utopia. He was the first Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, a position he held in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931. He broke with Labour policy in 1931, and was expelled from the party and excoriated as a turncoat, as the Party was overwhelmingly crushed that year by the National Government coalition that Snowden supported. He was succeeded as Chancellor by Neville Chamberlain.