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the crowd as well to do young men, with the "better
type of working man" largely absent.
(I)
In Scotland
students played an important role; at Glasgow the
working men in the audience were said to be quiet
and the cob came from a higher stratum of society
The Edinburgh crowd was mainly composed of students
and at Dundee of atudents and clerks*
(3)
(2)
Of course
accounts of crowd composition wore often impressionistic*
- the Socialist press was reluctant to admit that
working men took part in anti-peace detonatrationt% at
all and liked to think that all jingoes were in the
words of Labour Lender, "well dressed roughs hired
for the occasions. "
(4)
But the Scottish crowds
at any rate seem to have had a high rrepondoranco of
medical and other students, while working con were
uoro associated with the defence of the meeting.
(1) Cronwright Schreiner, op citr p, 7,
(2) Ibn, p, 66
(3) Labour Lender ,$ 17th March 1900.
(4) xid,