The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . n carriage accompanied by his wife, and two or three of hismore prominent supporters came up and spoke to him. Iwas standing by the wheel of the carriage when I saw a mantake a chew of tobacco and fling it at the lady with an aimthat was all too accurate In a moment I had felled him to the ground with a blowwhich I trust made his head tingle and ache for many a day tocome. But will it be believed that there were men standing by—men with mothe
The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself . n carriage accompanied by his wife, and two or three of hismore prominent supporters came up and spoke to him. Iwas standing by the wheel of the carriage when I saw a mantake a chew of tobacco and fling it at the lady with an aimthat was all too accurate In a moment I had felled him to the ground with a blowwhich I trust made his head tingle and ache for many a day tocome. But will it be believed that there were men standing by—men with mothers and sisters, daughters and wives—whowitnessed this filthy outrage on a woman, who neither by wordsnor gesture showed their disapproval of it, but who, on thecontrary, cried shame on me for knocking him down ? In a moment I found myself half surrounded by a hostileRadical gang, and things were just assuming a very ugly aspectwhen the candidate stepped out of his carriage, took me by thearm, put me into it and gave orders to drive off. He shookhands heartily with me and thanked me. That was very manly and very chivalrous of you, saidthe Photo 1,1/ Arthur Walon. Ioutrii, KEIR HARDIE. 1893. \_haciiujp. 234. CHAPTER XXIV. KEIR HARDIE AND MALTMAN BARRY. IN a letter to the members of the Independent Labour Party,in the Labour Leader of April 2nd, 1913, Mr. KeirHardie, on taking up the chairmanship afresh, reviewed theprogress of the party during its twenty years of existence. From the point of view of public opinion, he said, we might be Hving in a different age in 1913 from whatwe were in 1893. It is not only that questions are nowpopular which were then taboo, but that the whole socialoutlook has undergone a revolutionary change. Thefounding of the was part of the movement of revoltagainst the deadly, dreary mediocrity and the absenceof all idealism which had marked the Victorian were then dull, arid and meaningless. This is one of thos
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