A History of Labour Representation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The author must not be understood as maintaining that the Labour Representation movement is the product Of working-men alone, or that working-men should reject all advice from men of other classes. As a matter of fact, a number of middle-class Radicals rendered the movement service in the early days. To name a few: there were John Stuart Mill - at whose instigation the first working-man candidate was put forward - Frederic Harrison, Mr. (the late Sir) Charles Dilke, Professor Beesley, Joseph Cowen, Edmund Beales, P. A. Taylor, and A. H. Layard. Indeed it was utterances of two Radical m.p.'s - A. H. Layard and T. B. Potter which inspired Robert Hartwell to inaugurate the movement for Labour Representation, in the Lon don working-men's Association, in 1866. The action of individuals who take a course apart from that of their class as a whole and the action of those who are the leaders of a class movement are, how ever, two very difi'erent things. The inner ring Of the Liberal and Tory parties never desired either a Labour group or a Labour party. The Liberals.

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