Note 646 — Chapter IX · (continued 2)

For instance, Henry Taylor, the coadjutor of Joseph Arch in organising the agricultural labourers in 1872, was a carpenter; Tom Mann, for two years salaried President of the Dock, Wharf, and Riverside Labourers, has always been a member, and is now General Secretary, of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers; whilst Edward M’Hugh, for some time General Secretary of the National Union of Dock Labourers, is a compositor; Mr. Charles Duncan, President of the Workers’ Union, is an engineer; Mr. R. Walker, General Secretary of the Agricultural Labourers’ Union, was successively a shopkeeper and a railway clerk, and so on.