week 11 - individuals and attitudes 1890 - 1914 Flashcards
joseph chamberlain:
politics
workers compensation act 1897 - established that an employee was entitled to compensation for any accident not his own fault, even if there was no negligence on the part - only covered blue-collar, industrial workers
in 1902, chamberlain announced a new tariff scheme that he hoped would draw britain and its dependencies together in a kind of common market. protected by stiff tariffs without and united by preferential tariffs within, the new union would add to britain’s international security, protect manufactures threatened by new competition from the united states and germany, and raise revenue for social projects at home.
joseph chamberlain:
colonies
‘i believe that the british race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen’
proposed an imperial economic union or with free trade within the empire and tariffs against goods from outside of it - strengthen british trade
joseph chamberlain:
federal constitution
australia 1891 and 1898
australia as a federation under a constitutional monarchy governed with a parliamentary system
joseph chamberlain:
uganda railway
cost the lives of 2000 natives
1060 km
faced a great deal of criticism in parliament, with many parliamentarians decrying it as exorbitantly expensive. this, coupled with the fatalities and wastage of the personnel constructing it through disease, tribal activity, and hostile wildlife led the uganda railway to be dubbed a lunatic line
needed to generate a return on investment and reduce the deficit
alfred milner:
milner schools
pretoria high school for girls
pretoria boys high school
king edward vii school
afred milner:
south africa
faced difficulties with kruger over the alien law - allowing alien-owned corporations to hold land so long as it is being sold to “actual settlers” or being used for legitimate business purposes
feared that if the whole of south africa were not quickly brought under british control, the newly wealthy transvaal, controlled by afrikaners, could unite with cape afrikaners and jeopardise the entire british position in south africa
uitlander voting issue - ‘it may seem a paradox’, he wrote, ‘but it is true that the only way for protecting our subjects is to help them to cease to be our subjects’ - felt that only the enfranchisement of the uitlanders in the transvaal would give stability to the south african situation - more british control
alfred milner:
treaty of vereeniging
all boer fighters of both republics had to give themselves up
all combatants would be disarmed
everyone had to swear allegiance to the crown
no death penalties would be dealt out
a general amnesty would apply
the use of dutch would be allowed in the schools and law courts
to eventually give the transvaal and the orange free state self-government (civil government was granted in 1906 and 1907, respectively)
to avoid discussing the native enfranchisement issue until self government had been given
to pay the boers £3,000,000 in reconstruction aid
property rights of boers would be respected
no land taxes would be introduced
registered private guns would be allowed
alfred milner:
chinese labourers
1906 - a motion censuring lord milner for an infraction of the chinese labour ordinance, in not forbidding light corporal punishment of coolies for minor offenses in lieu of imprisonment, was moved by a radical member of the house of commons
an amendment was moved - don’t punish the chinese it will put strain on the relationship with africa.
the amendment was carried by 355 votes to 135
