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working man;
(1)
520,
this may havo meant the politically
organisod working clans as opposed to tha andrphoua
mass of the jingo moba. A writer in Juan
declared that "not a single working class association
or trades union has declared in favour of war. "
The Durham V. P. John Wilson claimed that tont of hic
constituents, throe quarters of whoa wore mineral wore
opposed to the war.
(3)
(2)
fodgcox lltAtt noted Socialists
und Trades Unionists ao `concistcntly anti-war*
Unions however played only a call part in anti-war
activity; foreign policy, ne had been pointed out at
the T. U. C. t was not coi. othing that fitted oaeily into
a union's scope# Hodgson Pratt also noticed that
among the unorganinod working claoü there was much
(4)
Trades
apathy and some support for the war, lt wan difficult to
Cageaa the exact state of opinion in the unorganiaod
working class* - as a corroopondont of Bryce pointed out,
(1) Cronwrigth Schreiner, Op-cite p. 315,
(2) Ju tice, 17th March 19000 t
(3) Arbitrritor,
1 April 1900,
(i+) Cam
ncord, December 1901"