The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . lackguards to do it forthem. Other assertions were equally objectionable, andnot at all hkety to convince the pubhc that the descriptiongiven of the Free Labour Association as a sham and acheat has been proved ; but comment seems superfluousupon a gathering called ostensibly for free discussion, butat which no discussion of any kind took place. The Nei&castle Daily Journal has the following paragraph atthe end of its report of the Mass meetin
The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . lackguards to do it forthem. Other assertions were equally objectionable, andnot at all hkety to convince the pubhc that the descriptiongiven of the Free Labour Association as a sham and acheat has been proved ; but comment seems superfluousupon a gathering called ostensibly for free discussion, butat which no discussion of any kind took place. The Nei&castle Daily Journal has the following paragraph atthe end of its report of the Mass meeting : Ten of the delegates of the National Free LabourAssociation who attended the recent Congress, includingthe General Secretary and the District Secretary, remainedin Newcastle, with the view of meeting and replying toany charge that might be made against the associationat the meeting reported above. They sent a telegram, aletter, and a messenger, asking for permission to attendthe meeting, and for some assurance that they would havea fair hearing ; but though they remained at their officeuntil seven-thirty last night, they received no P/wfnhii Arthur Wistoii, ImiltriK HAVELOCK: WILSON. 1889. \_Facing p. 122. CHAPTER XV. ? WILSON V. COLLISON. THIS was the case in which Mr. J. Havelock Wilson, at thattime for Middlesbrough, sued me for hbel, claimingas damages five thousand pounds. The result, as my Counsel(Mr. Cock, ) truly said, was that the Jury found themselvesin the most extraordinary position in which a Jury had everfound themselves. Gilbert himself, in his travesty of legalaction. Trial by Jury, never imagined anything half so farcicalas this trial revealed. Here was a man, the General Secretaryand subsequently the President of the Sailors and FiremensUnion, charged by me in a pamphlet consisting of thirtycolumns with many and very serious offences, which the Gazette bluntly termed accusations of theft andswindling. Indeed, there was har
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