The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . great services which such bodies render to thepublic welfare, but because those who have seats in eitherHouse of Parhament ought to enter on the discussionand examination of all questions as free from preconceptionand engagements as possible. I must say, however, thatif I were to join any association at all it would be mostnaturally to me one which aims at establishing the greatfundamental principle of individual liberty in all lawfulthings.
The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . great services which such bodies render to thepublic welfare, but because those who have seats in eitherHouse of Parhament ought to enter on the discussionand examination of all questions as free from preconceptionand engagements as possible. I must say, however, thatif I were to join any association at all it would be mostnaturally to me one which aims at establishing the greatfundamental principle of individual liberty in all lawfulthings. All classes are greatly interested in this con-summation, but certainly none more so than the wage-earning classes^ because all men who have capital,enterprise, or any other gift which impels them to ask theaid of labour must always reckon and count above allthings on a perfect freedom of action between man andman in all relations of Ufe. I do not know that I haveany suggestion to make, except to have the necessity ofthis principle well and simply explained and enforced asone of the most certain of those laws of Nature to whichwe are all ^^^f^^^^^c*/^./^ «^ DR. PANKHURST. \_Faciiiy p. 310. ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS 311 Early in November, 1906, I received an invitation fromMr. J. A. Emery, the Secretary of the Citizens IndustrialAssociation of America, to attend the Fifth Annual Conventionof that body on December 3rd and 4th ensuing. As an indirectresult of this, I toured America and delivered many found the Trade Union bosses in America venal and corruptto a degree, criminals resorting to every species of blackmail,unscrupulous and aggressive, and not hesitating to the use ofdynamite and wholesale murder to enforce the closed shop,which means that only Trade Unionists can be emplojed andthat all manufactured articles must bear the Trade Union label. The open shop movement is supported by some of thekeenest intellects amongst the business men of America, and
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