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He was born on 3 July 1853 in Failsworth, Lancashire, the third of six children of handloom weavers, and educated at a print works school in Failsworth.
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He was born on 3 July 1853 in Failsworth, Lancashire, the third of six children of handloom weavers, and educated at a print works school in Failsworth.
He started work in a card-cutting room at the age of six and worked as a cotton operative until he was 28. He was active in the creation of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the Labour Party. He unsuccessfully ran as an ILP parliamentary candidate for Leicester in 1894 and 1895 before taking a role of organising secretary for the ILP between 1897 and 1902.
He resigned from the ILP in 1915.
Throughout his career he was involved in newspapers:
1881: correspondent for a local newspaper
1884: started his own short-lived paper, the Oldham Operative
1885-1889: sub-editor of the Cotton Factory Times
1889-1891: manager of the Yorkshire Factory Times
1891-1893: editor of Workman"s Times
1914: editor of the Bradford Pioneer
1919: editorial staff for the London Evening Standard and the Pall Mall Gazette.
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He was a member of the Glasgow City Council between 1902-1905 and unsuccessfully ran as an ILP candidate for Glasgow Camlachie in 1906, and Montrose in 1908 and 1910.