The actual reforms which the Socialists of the Chair have hitherto promoted have been in the main copied from our own English legislation-our Factory Acts, our legalization of Trade Unions, our Savings Banks, our registration of Friendly Societies, our sanitary legislation, etc.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
In the passage just quoted he expressly makes an appeal to public opinion for an active interference in a direction where, he believes, its interference might be useful; and as for the action of the State, he approves, for one thing, of the legalization of trades unions, and, for another, of the special instruction of the public, at the national expense, in the principles on which a high rate of wages depend.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
And then it was that the admirable Madame de la Chanterie came to beg that Adeline would add the legalization of these voluntary unions to the other good works of which she was the instrument.
"Cousin Betty"
Honore de Balzac