The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . onMusic Halls. Thus it is we are governed. If you hve withdemocrats you grow strangely tired of democracy. H. H. Champion was the brains of the Dock Strike, and hisversatility is proved by the fact that he wrote three differenthistories of the strike under the signature of himself, JohnBurns and Ben Tillett. His attacks on Sir John Brunner, ofBrunner, Mond and Co., involved him in a libel, and he had toabandon the Labour Elector, of which he
The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . onMusic Halls. Thus it is we are governed. If you hve withdemocrats you grow strangely tired of democracy. H. H. Champion was the brains of the Dock Strike, and hisversatility is proved by the fact that he wrote three differenthistories of the strike under the signature of himself, JohnBurns and Ben Tillett. His attacks on Sir John Brunner, ofBrunner, Mond and Co., involved him in a libel, and he had toabandon the Labour Elector, of which he was editor. Heafterwards went to Australia and started a newspaper calledThe Champion. He is there still, in the backwaters of life. Early in the same year I was elected a delegate on the LegalEight Hours Committee, and attended the first meeting in aworkmens club in Gye Street, Vauxhall, in February, club was started by the Rev. W. A. Morris, Vicar of , South Lambeth— Brother Bob we used to call this club, billiards, entertainments and Socialism flourishedexceedingly. One tiny corner of the billiard-room was partitioned. Photo hii Iholoijraphic (o-oju-rolire .Soc:,lu E. B. AVELING. IFtu-iiiy p. 80. FLEET STREET AND BOHEMIA 8i off, and here was just room enough for Brother Bobs bedand books ; for the rest he Hved in the club. In this room the famous May Day Demonstration in HydePark was first discussed and started, and here also was theSouth London Gas Strike organized. Here, too, the PeoplesPress was first published. Dr. Aveling was in the Chair and proved an excellent Chair-man. The Doctor was an avowed atheist, Vice-President ofthe National Secular Society, Sociahst lecturer, journahst,author and dramatist. His chief works were : StudentsMarx, Students Darwin, Botany for Students, andtranslations of Marxs Kapital, Engels Socialism,Haeckels Pedigree of Man and Titchomiroffs Hved with Eleanor Marx, the youngest daughter of KarlMarx.
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