Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-01-19
A LONDON LETTER
ENGLISH SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
IN POLITICAL ACTION.
The School Board and Municipal
Elections - Steady Progress.
County Council Elections.
UnemplOyed-Brutal
Police Attacks.

LONDON, Dec. 28, l886.-Elec-
tions for the London School Board
VIII ch took place the end of last
month have demonstrated the in
crease in the Socialist vote, and
have proved to us that we can COM
mand far larger number of votes
than We had supposed. AS you
have already announced, the votes
polled by the Social-Democratic can
1idates at the London School Board
election in 1885 was S,4l6; at the
last election they polled 1880
votes, an increase of which we may
well feel proud. We were also sue
cessful in getting Two of our candi-
dates elected, VIZ, Annie Besant in
Tower Hamlet, and Stewart Head
lam in Hackney. II. Quelch, the
editor Of Justice, polled about double
the number of votes which he oh
tanned in 1885 in East LAMBETH; :;
Mrs. Hicks did the same in Marye-
bone, whilst in West Lambeth John
Ward, the NAVY, who is one of the
most active members in the Social
Democratic Federation. and who
has been instrumental in forming
trades union among the hitherto un-
organized navvies, nearly succeeded
n getting elected, polling SAG
yotes.
The attitude of the Radicals to-
ward us was totally different at the
'ecent School Board election to what
was in 1885. Then our proposal
Or the free feeding Of the children
n the schools so that they might
OF be crammed on empty stomachs
,as secuted by the Radicals as Il
cheme for "pauperizing' the chill
ren. As if the provision of a good
heal for the little ones pauper-
ied them. Now, however, the
'adicals have admitted all around
nat free meal in the schools in
oorer districts is a necessity. This
lows what a wonderful change in
lblic opinion may be brought
Jout by persistent agitation.
In Tottenham, a suburb of Lon
On, which has a local School Board
itself, a member of the Totem
am branch Of the Social-Demo-
ATTIC Federation was elected to the
ward. Our comrade, who is a
saking engineer, was elected over
be heads of clergymen, barristers,
Uler, vrer ,ntantS, and a good many more
perat "upper' but useless classes.
homesas already been appointed on
Purer ool Fees Committee, where,
noutS, tho e q supporter of free educa-
bate twill use all his powers to
lively, itool fees in every case which
do awaycught before the Commit
CRIME, 3ra amo break down and render
same ume,em' mann, the pernicious system of
On sunday Which is mainly upheld
on 1.-The Sd element.
bate follows. lam, our comrade, J.
p. represented the Birm-
l. 'OR'S [ Council at the recent
A ent repo,.rades Union Con
miu ST the Staetood as a Social
alton slows that onete and pOlled
tober the number oAt Salfcrd the
institutions governedOIlows Smart,
Charities and Correctie5. Thomson.
elusive of 1877 Officers, ,lton Sbnf4Io,
and that as compared W
fore there had been an oIeh' None
inmates. The fOllOwingn obtaining
tions, whose support. of {
by the working people tion. which
were inspected by this CON paanJ
Bellevue Hospital, Pavipol po"lu
Insane. Alcoholic Cells, Tr,c0mrades
for Nurses, Emergency " vic
Ninety st. Relief He's Mu-
lem Hospital GouverneuI af H.
Charity Hospital, AImshou, VI 'H9
house, Lunatic Asylum, ptallleu
Island. Homeopathic Hospita TO the
for Insane, Wards Islando was
Asylum, Idiot Asylum, Epile ioinoI
vilion, Children's Hospital, Al p~l on
pitals, Randalls Island, Branch ~
Asylum, Branch Work house, Hess
land Hers
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