1956-10-30 — Page 4

KEIR HARDIE-THE REBEL IN POLITICS

THE CHINA MÁIL,” TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958,

CHAPTER TWO

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THE MINER DECLARES WAR ON THE LEADERS

H

ARDIE was a regular attender ni the miners' union

By Emrys Hughes

to the pits.

returned he beame secretary of the newly formed Scottish Miners' Federation.

meetings. He could rend save in and the men and write and express him- self better than most, and Nin- his earnestness and cerity won the confidence of So they the older men. Boon put him in the chair.

At this Graves the un NA SETY DAT weak and the meelimps dy attended. That in 1870 the larg of a cut in wogry grew, and a meelings got bigger. He zoon his fret ebance to al large gathering.

Aler this he became accettary of the Ayrrhire miners, with the k of building up the union It was able to 4 for until Hither

wures.

Hardie

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quietly and varnestly. gestures

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spewel was that they met, and together and bevoite on Rakuge f There was a motion 131 following the and al

wan efected vertetaty.

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This journalistic experience encouraged him to launch monthly journal, "The Miner In 1087. 1ta aim was not only to deal with mining affairs but to advocale "reform in every Direction

which promises to the tolling bring millions".

relief

iv

His reputation at o rebel had come before him. The gathertd to hear him speak 1# pithrud, and the owners sent their hirelings to brent. up The meetings. He became

The first edition included to accustomed

Threats

article by Thomas Burt, the ubysical violence, but he did veteran miners leader and nek coolne And courage. Liberal MP for Northumberland, It took trairage, too, for the in which he declared himself meu to stand by him because

Koins! Parliamentary legisla they risked being victimised, tion in favour of an eight-hour und this meant not only kosinnt Their jibe but theu house its

wa:33.

DANGEROUS

Wus dLN #1 ROITA)

i mees even to a Hurdle in for Antal. Ouer aller a meeting, u BRADST arranged for him to sleep in his house. Just before they wire going to bind a guter comes round

day for miners, preferring it to brettled by negotiation with the unions. Burt appealed for caution. "Newly formed unions everywhere have shown M Tendency to travel at too quick

pare und impossibilities."

to

expect

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This was hardly art inspiring clarion call for a new рарег that 14} the Name

blishes!

a leading article 201 shutt 10 which Hardie outlined the cape the moglal there for JL71 eight hours Bill in Hat bao pal for the man in contradiction to all Burt 114251 Hardie unde's-sald. 17. To the very first

The Miner"

·ferent

and ramped the

the twelve number acres the Tumors home Harde's Bruggle with the old Their talt for # 30 percent school of leaders had begun, inevel was rejected in Auried TERI, a strike followed, For the Brst use the Ayrshire men came out together The strike sted ten weeks until cold and hunger drove them ach Bul

DWDJUPN

after 2/17- lended they mild afford arise After all

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meagre fonds wtre exhaustest, and after the excitement of the strike, opathy

They could no longer pay Hardie, He had broken his Aunt Binks with Lanarkshire and had when a brought his young wife and her her they lit clald To live in

cozon and catalane. Mary Kilhen In ConnecCİL

Angwin WIL still

outside the child was expected and he had rect Handle dinbted

no hope of gelling work in the Mike could be successful – pita.

They

right up but one was called,

gulist it.

Then came

Jedure lum

wages wit Inve

tinion

n

Once the decision was taken Hardie did everything he could to help. There were practically

vere

TO LONDON

He travelled to Lendon էր

lobby support for the BI} from MPK. Situng In the gallery Istening to debates me become fisure convinevid that Un

Lume had come for a Labour Party, Independent of the Liberals, in fight for the working classes.

condernned the weakness of the

working class Liberai politieluns and equally the Ultide of the TUC, whose political policy was simply 10 socure the return rf working men to Parliament,

Ho

"But what difference," Ne wrote, "will it make to me that

have Д working man representing me in Parliament, a stroke of luck. tf he is a dumb dog who dare His minister, who acted as dis not bork and will follow the triet correspondent for a joes leader under

circum- no funds in the union, and the paper. was forced to take u stances? There is something omcials pledged themselves to long holidny. Knowing Hardie even more

any

desirable than the

the shopkeepers to buy potatoes wrole shorthand he asked him return of working meni 10 for the soup kitchens, After to deputize a job that, in fact, Parliament and that is to give weeks the employers lasted four years until in 1886 working men □ definite pro-

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He proceeded to outline the programme. It included pay- ment of MPs, adult suffrage, free education, nationalisation

land, railways, mines and mineral right, a legal eight- hour day, a national Insurance find, compulsory erection of

working people, direct taxation and abolition of all taxation on food,

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Hardie had become an avowed Socialist. Ho hid declared open war on the old leaders and Was advocating an in- dependent Labour Party to replace the Liberals.

(AR Rights Reserved)

TOMORROW: The Turning Poin!

"T

Tupelo, Mississippi HIS," shouted the State troop- er, "is a heck of a place to inter- view somebody."

The place was a crowded, brawling, over-hot tent in a field outaide this small farming town.

The "gumebody"

was

Tupelo's favourite zon of the

moment, the local boy who has become the biggest phenomenon in show business; Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley, now 21, has risen in tile more than a year from being an unknown lorry driver to the undisputed lender of the riot-rousing cult of rock 'n' roll

His records have tamed more than £2,000,000 so far, (A million copies of his intest hove been ordered before it is issued.)

He

DOWN WITH THE WORKS OF SATAN!

DOWN WITH PREMIUM

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Cummings

DOWN

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DOWN WITH SUNDAY

PAPERS

∙WITH DOWN

DOWN WITH

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DOWN WITH DANCING

SATURDAY,

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·SIGN THE PLEDGE

AT LAST! A PROGRAMME AT LAST!

MAN OF AMBITION IN A TENT OF SIGHS, WHERE HE MAKES THE GIRLS EXCLAIM—

'Please, Mr Presley,

gel: 210,000 for three And it television appearances.

is reported he has raked in another £1,000,000 by giving his name to various products,

Elvis Presley

I were and

what WD: Trying to talk in supposedly his dressing-room.

Gold 'n' diamonds

AROUND us were four armed

State troopers, the governor, the mayor, radio men with thrusting microphones, photo. gruphers with Rashing cameras, and a throng of teenage girls with stars in their eyes and anything autographable in their hands,

sign my back'

by

PETER DACRE

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On the fingers of his left land were two gold rings, with black sapphires, the other topped by a diamond horseshoe,

"Mr Presicy."* I said, "do you know the sensation rock 'n' zoli musie Britain?"

caused

He surveyed himself in the mirror, "No, sir, I didn't know. I heard my records were going well over there, though."

Rock 'n' roll

ASKED him if he had heard

I that there and even been class. A radio man pushed forward. "I'm from station WELO," he sald Will you give us an interview about that, Mr Dacre?"

I said it was my job to get interviews, not to give theen.

"Mr Presley," I continued, "ean you explain the success of rock 'n' roll and your singing?"

A

"Why do you way?"

"I like it that way."

sing that

A burly State trooper thrust a pile of photography between

"Sign these, Elvis." US.

A young girl took a photo- Bruch. Presley kissed her on the forehead, loud and theatri- cal. "Oh, Elvis, you aro a darling," she cried, and melted into the background.

"what adula-

"Mr Presley," I said, do you feel about this Lon

other

Presley moved his gun to the side, tugged at his

and troLEDETS,

said: "This what?"

"All these girls mobbing you like this," I explained.

**I like it. I wouldn't be human if I didn't.”

From

and Screams 'n' bangs

Elvis, auto-

As he sang, his loose-limbed hip-rolling, his swaying, and his lurching legs started the girls screaming ond banging the stage. They tore their hair and held out imploring handa Photographers crowded

stage

the

Police Joined them. Presley kept on ringing. One blonde climbed hysterically on to the stage and flung her arms around Presley.

Не

Sho

cept on singing. was carried off struggling and wooping.

When it was ovce Pret loy dushed to his car and was away to his carded dressing tonit with his sort,

-Sir,

There I sold: "Mr Prcaloy. do you consider you sway about too much on the stage?”

I don't do anything bad I just move to the music account of the way I feel. can't help it.

trear it and I gotla move.

me,

'You've

"People tell gorth stop squirming like tadpole,' but I'd rooner cut my throat than be vulgar

"You've seen my tolka. They're respectable God-fearing people. They wouldn't let me do anything vulgar,"

Shock 'n' poll

SAID I thought he teased the girls something shocking. Presley gave me a shocked

lock.

"Hiya," he called to a young man who had just come up. He slapped him heartily. **When were kids we used to slip

the open-air theatre came an announcer's voice;-----

"We've

500 National Guard and police here, so let's And please have no trouble. keep away from the stage.

The up. young girl dashed lest show ecme of them got touched Presley's three-inch burned, some of them wer

and dortred out crushed but none of them got sideburns

Elvis," screaming: "I touched him."

Someone else thrust Ip-

his hand pleaded: "Please graph my back."

Presley obliged with • THE warning ww justified. in here under the fence 'cause

THE practised flourish

From the moment Presley we had no money, But It's "Mr Presley," I said, "about had entered the theatre in his different now." this rock 'n' roll." "Oh, yes, white Lincoln. Continental (he "Say, Elvis," said someone,

has four sir," he said. He scratched his also

Cadillacs, a "will you have your picture mass of hair. "I wish I knew. Messerschmitt runabout, and a tuken with the govemor?u

the tension had I've never been able to motor-bicycle)

Presley agreed. He put his mounted. explain the reason myself."

arm round the govenor and said: "I over leave this business I'll go into polities."

"What'il you run for?" some- one asked.

Presley, relaxed and gum

velvet blue chewing, were a shirt (casually open to reveal a barc chest), speckled black sir, trousers, 'and white shoes,

LADIES, HOW MUCH ARE YOU:

H

WORTH TO

OW much in hard cash

are you worth to your husband? I've spent

a week talking to successful

men, and to men who are

YOUR

HUSBAND?

SYLVIA LAMOND discovers that it

is probably less than his secretary

•

get on success, and I've at of complaining--about me It takes real application and office, not discipline to get in on the assets come to a startling conclu- staying late at the

paying her enough attention, or of the balance sheet along with sion.

bringing a certain associate, she the good secretarios." leather home to dinner. I hate

kind of tension--but this

know now how to solve it.

If you are an average wife you are worth just about £3 109 ▸ wook less Iban his Fecretory!

I give her £20 to go and do some shopping--and then have some peace for a bil"

I

We

I can almost hear the walls of indignation going up' now from the wives who never spare I decided my friend under- themselves-hard at it all day rates women, and told him so. with the cooking, the care of his ..... wardrobe, the shopping, running of his home,

...

the

"Not at all," he said. He has the greatest respect for them in business, A.

fuccces, only one mentioned that she was a good cook, not one said she was a good mother.

we

"The city limits" repilet Presley

I led Presley back to the corner and zsid:" "Mr Presicy, what do you think of your success now?"

...

"I don't ever think about it, except sometimes when I wake up in the moming and say to myself Has this really hap- rened to you,'”

"Mr Presley..." I said, Sir Robert Watson Watt, A man pushed a young girl wartime pioneer of radar, said: || forward, Bay, Elvis, you re- "Since I met. her I am a totally member Leonard's daughter." different person. I was an awk- "Sure," mid Presley. "Hiya. ward, silent, unsociable scientist. He hugged the near-fainting

girl, "I don't know" quite how she I left and went out into the did it. But she makes me feel comparative quiet of 5,000

For instance: Which wite that what I have to say is screaming teenagers. would joyfully accept a day trip interesting to everybody." to Manchester on his business when she could be turning out. Sir Charles Colston said cupboards or planting flowers,

·AN ASSET

But she could be ʼn real amat on the trip taking notes os he drives, reading him correspond ence, or his dreary trade journal Ict's face facts. The casicat. thing In, the world for a man-

His secretary, is a magnificent from cover, to cover, or just without-a-wife is to find himself he reminds him that the letting him talk at her,

cllent he is taking to lunch that

But

a loyal efficient, slave of a house

keeper who will minister to his

creature' comforts for week plus her; keep

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bluntly: "Bo many wives only want to know: How much can I spend? No man in his right, mind would discuss business problems with a mind like that.

dy wife learned about money and the making of it at the bo sinning of cur marriage, and we've never had any nonsenso with housekeeping, allowances. She draws on our joint account

day fancies hirsch on his pind- For instance: Which wife fools Just as she wishes-and. I had to apple, she keeps his Christmas like Keeping her mind razor once her to buy her first, für card list i to date, are brings sharp so that he remembers cost,"

his pills with his ten, takes work every name her husband men- Örwald „Miller, chairman of home, typos like mad.

Mions in connection with, his':

A

"I began to hate that pecretary. Mainly on behalf of the wife.

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a wife lige in, bow betively, she can help him to get

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