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Title: The apostle of free labour : the life story of William Collison, founder and general secretary of the National Free Labour Association, told by himself
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Collison, William National Free Labour Association
Subjects: Collison, William Labor unions -- Great Britain History Strikebreakers -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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are so,it is because they have so little inducement and encourage-ment to be thrifty. Yours very truly, George Livesey. The last time I saw him was on the 15th December, 1904,when we both gave evidence before the Royal Commission onTrade Disputes and Trade Combinations. He was called first,and having finished, waited while I gave mine, and we then leftthe Royal Commissions House at the same time, and walked overWestminster Bridge together, talking mostly on Free Labour. On parting he shook hands most warmly with me, and said : I eincerely wish the Free Labour movement every success,Collison. By his death the National Free Labour Association lost awarm and consistent supporter, and the cause of Labourgenerally a true friend. The giant gasometer of the SouthMetropohtan Gas Company, with which his name will be forever associated, is typical of the monument of reverence andesteem existing in the hearts and minds of thousands of men,women and children whom he benefited. These to hismemory.
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Ihntri till Arthur Weston, ioultru, E.C. BEN TILLETT. 1889. (Fariiiij p. 250. CHAPTER XXVI. THE HISTORY OF TILLETT AND THE MANY AGES OF MANN. BEN TILLETT is an enigma in many respects—an openbook in many more. He is an enigma because he is ademagogue, with the taste of a sybarite ; a voluptuary with thehide of an agitator; a hypochondriac and a dreamer of dreamsthat never materiahze. He possesses none of those sohd attributes which go to makethe successful public man, who achieves a dominance over theminds of men. He never knew how to labour and to wait.Ever grasping at the present shadow of fleeting popularity, helost the substance of future greatness. I hardly think it toomuch to say that the seeds of the mistrust which latterly becameso pronounced were sown at the very commencement of hisprosperity, in 89, when the poor derelict dockers discovered,all too late, that their victory was gained, not for their ownbenefit, but for that of healthy and strong agricultural labourerswho re

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