. Jas. Keir Hardie's life story from pit trapper to Parliament . By 1904 the National Council of w^as able to arrange with Hardiefor the purchase of three-quarters ofthe shares of the Labour Leader, Hardiegiving the complete control overtl^e management and editorship of thepaper, and entered into an undertaking not to start a weekly joiwmal again fora period of five years. The success of the new National P. in its propaganda amongst theTrade Unions resulted in the adoptionof a resolution by the Trades UnionCongress in advocacy of an eight-hourday. This was a g
. Jas. Keir Hardie's life story from pit trapper to Parliament . By 1904 the National Council of w^as able to arrange with Hardiefor the purchase of three-quarters ofthe shares of the Labour Leader, Hardiegiving the complete control overtl^e management and editorship of thepaper, and entered into an undertaking not to start a weekly joiwmal again fora period of five years. The success of the new National P. in its propaganda amongst theTrade Unions resulted in the adoptionof a resolution by the Trades UnionCongress in advocacy of an eight-hourday. This was a great advance whenyou take into consideration the factthat the trade unions discussed a yearor so previous to that the advisabilityof demanding that Hardie be asked toresign his membership in the TradeUnion movement for having the au-dacity to advocate eight hours a dayfor trade unionists. In 1894, at the Norwich Trade UnionCongress, on the motion of Mr. Green-all (Lancaster Miners), a member ofthe I. L. P., seconded by Mr. TomMann, and supported by Keir Hardie. —Labour Leader. and the Eight Hon. John Burns, a reso-lution in favor of socialism, was car-ried, the success of this resolutionaroused a great deal of discussion inpolitical and trade union councils. In the election of 1895 Hardie losthis seat in West Ham in a campaignconducted by the capitalist press of mis-representation. This defeat liberatedhim from parliamentary duties for ac-tive propaganda work with a tour tothe United States at the invitation ofthe organized labor movement in thatcountry. Mr. Frank Smith, in a book-let on Hardie, gives a fine descriptio^i of how Hardie took hdi defeat in WestHam. Were beaten, Keir, were thewords a trusted comrade gasped out atthe end of the exciting contest at WestHam, 1895 election. Even his opponents turned to seehow he would take it. He just smok-ed on for a moment, unruffled and ap-parently unmoved. The dull roar ofconflicting forces filtered through thewindows as the watc
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