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opinion favoured a withdrawal from the Sudans M
and the
London working class radicals played an important part in
peace organisation, (see below). Thomas Burt wrote of
the miners in north-east England in 1882$ - °'they.. erooe.
Radical almost to a man.., they are strongly and nearly
unanimously opposed to aggrosaive war and to a spirited
foreign policy. " In the Afghanistan$ Transvaal and Zulu
tiara "nowhere was the anti-jingo fooling more general and
conspicuous than amongst the agricultural labourers and
miners. "
(P-)
die analysed articulate working claea. opinion
in 1882, . "Though the great majority of the people have no
doubt supported the Government policy in Egypt, the support
has been neither unanimous nor enthusiastic# Largo number©
of working seng .- including some of the coat thoughtful and
intelligent in the ranks of the Radical party$ - were from
the timst strongly averco to armed intervention. In London
several conferoncos, wore bold, to which many of the Democratic
and working moots clubs sent delegates, and at t4 coo meetings
resolutions were unanimously adopted in favour of poooe" A
largo cprinMng of the leading tradoa uzioniots of the
(1) l. ld nom, 15th 1"ebr unry 1885.
ýi Fortniehtly Rpnie
, T. Burt, op cit, p, *725.