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uyndman later embellished the tale by relating how the
mob "had been brought up from the East End at the coat
of half-a-crown or co a head and unlimited liquor. " C1)
The peace party wore convinced that the pro-Government
mob was not acting spontaneously, though nothing cooing to
have been proved. An eyewitness wrote of the composition
of the crowds . "Very few actual roughs were present;
the vast majority was made up of young men of the
"masher" type, who crowd music-halle and swallow with
avidity the patriotic bunkum which in nightly to be
board in these eotablichmontc... of mechanics and
bonny fide labourora, very few were present.
" (2)
majority of the handful of defondents who appeared at
Bow Street court the next day wore men of no given
The
occupstion1 though there wore also a baker and a stoker*
The same pattern of oincinc, noise and attempts to hold
rival meetings, was followed in the disruption of meetings
in other ports of the country*
After the Trafalgar £quaro fiasco, the attentions
of the London peace party turned to the promotion of a
(1) Further I ernininccncon1 p, ß6p.
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(2) Lrbitrntor, ©ctobor 1899.
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