The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . Flii-h. Ill Arih„r 11.,./,,,,. I\.nl,ri,. E. TOM MANN. 1889. IFacingp. 262. THE HISTORY OF TILLETT 263 of the Independent Labour Party instead, and contested ColneValley as a Socialist. He was nominated for the Secretaryshipof the Trade Union Congress at Norwich, September, 1894, andwas again hopelessly beaten. The SociaHsts and Trade Unionists rallied round him andenabled him to depart for Austraha, where he became in turnTrade Union agitato
The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . Flii-h. Ill Arih„r 11.,./,,,,. I\.nl,ri,. E. TOM MANN. 1889. IFacingp. 262. THE HISTORY OF TILLETT 263 of the Independent Labour Party instead, and contested ColneValley as a Socialist. He was nominated for the Secretaryshipof the Trade Union Congress at Norwich, September, 1894, andwas again hopelessly beaten. The SociaHsts and Trade Unionists rallied round him andenabled him to depart for Austraha, where he became in turnTrade Union agitator and Socialist lecturer. In Australia he found that he could not generate enthusiasmfor violent upheavals in the minds of people. The conditions oflife being so easy, and work generally so plentiful, the revo-lutionary Sociahst has a hard row to hoe down under. Failing as a Trade Union strike fomenter and Socialistlecturer, he thought he would try farming, but nobody seemedto think it necessary to buy his silence with a farm. He regretfully left the Antipodes, and his friends had tosubscribe his passage money, not his enemies. On his wayhome he
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