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aright not only become our chief outlet for manufactures and a
great field for railway and nteamuhip development, but also
prove a reservoir for supplying all aorta of raw material for
manufactures and our chief ground for food*"
(1)
He suggested
##a powerful African trading corporation" with shares of Z1 each
to enable the working classes to take part. Bradshaw's blueprint
fite into the general
interest shown in Africa by the Manchester
Chamber of Commerce, " stimulated by James Hutton who was a
close supporter of the Congo International Association. Bradshaw
also* in suggesting a railway from r4ombaooa, to Lake Victoria is
East Africa, appeared to be aware of the plans of Wiliam
Mackinnon (a Scottish friend of Hutton) for an East African
Concoaaion. Be did not win much approval at the T. U. U
There was some support from Lancashire representatives from the
Weavers Union and Carpenters and Joiners Unions but coot
delegates ware against the scheme « mainly on moral grounds,
a representative of Loicentor Boot and Shoo workers ".. had a
decided antipathy to annexation when it meant taking other
people's territories (hear hoar)" and a painter and decorator
from London wanted to know` . "How could this scheme be
accomplished except by the edge of the sword? "
(1) fir. -ade-9 Union Conpronn Rei, o tq 1879 p. 31, of eeq"
(2) Lbids