A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider adequate…may not be a healthy or proper contract, but it cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.


in the House of Commons, 22 February 1906


A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider...

A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider...

A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider...

A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider...