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In connection with this demonstrations P. W. Souttar of
Bormondnoy Labour Longues issued a nnnifectq to the
working people of-London, which read "did not you man
of London, have to pull down they'Byde Park railings to
got a vote,., Yet even today. there are hundrods of
thouaunds of you working man who have no vote;... you
are only good enough to pay taxes and find tho expenses
of a war to give ,a vote in the Transvaal to capitalists,
gold mine owners, company promoters and swindlers. The
government can always come to you for money for wara1
but never have any to give you for an old age pension,
War monan for you, leas work, smaller waget, more taxes*
greater (poverty.
" (1)
Tbic was a comprehensive anti.
wr1r, caße1 dirootod specifically to the working clsoaos,
some roetingo were hold in tho Laut End of
London, agoinut the war,, with largoly working cluoc
audiences. Poplar Labour League organised a mooting at
Poplar Town Hall on 28th Soptenbor, where five hundred
working men heard with enthusiasm, Will Crooke und O. S.
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Echo % 20th Sopto tbcr 1899.