The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-08
TOM MANN, SYnDICALIST LEADER, TO BE FREED
 FROM JAIL TODAY

Tom Mann, the leader of the Britt i6h "syndicanst' labor movement, the wood in America and Yvetot in France. was released from Jail yes- terday. For his part in the labor troubles in England, Mann was sen- fenced last May to six months inn prisonment. his specific crime having been an attempt to influence British soldiers from their duty. The convic- tiOn of their leader was the signal for wild agitation and as result Reginald ,McKenna, British Home Secretary, reduced the sentence to two months
 labor leaders, among them, Yvetot, Pelloutiar and Pouget, and it's doe- trines quickly spread to Englend and America. On this side of the Allan tic the new form of labor organiza- tion found expression in the Indus trial Workers, of the World, which has Conducted strikes in the mills of Lawrence Mass, and other indus trial centers and in the Western mines. Tn England, Tom Mann, who has spent a lifetime in labor move mentS was quick to grasp the new gospel and to put 1t into effect in the various strikes that within the last year or two have threatened the peace and prosperity of John Bulls island
 Mann vas hcrn ss years 1s agp in the i.ls
 
 His parents were poor and at the age of nine he left school te work on a farm. and at the age of eleven was employed in a mine. He saved h1s money and learned engineerIns, af- tetWard getting a position in Err 7mingha1r. There he tOiled fourteen hours a day, at wages barely sufi1- cient, to keep him alive. Tn 1881 he joined the Amalgamatad Society of Engineers, and he has ever since been one of the leaders in British trades unions. He joined the socialists in 1885. but has gradually become more and more radical, until now he appar- ently has only contempt for the Fa- bian Socialism of Shaw and tho pOlit- ical socialism of Robert Blatchford, as we'll as for the old forms of labor ula- i0nimm.
 No man in England Is more feared by employers of labor than Tom Mann. Before beginning a labor war flor he holds that capital and labor are now engaged in g real war~--he plans every move ,,, in sadSaa,1e advance ana ana consideration When he strikes he de- liyers his blows hard and fast. In executive ability and strategy he has probably never had an equal in the tabor world His enemies admit that, has the clothes on his back, and prac- tically nothing more, In the way or worldly goods.
 AS an orator and writer Mann is ef- fective, although. far from eloquent or gifted In smooth speech. He has never been heard to attack the rich. For the poor who listen eagerly to his message he has only words of derls- ion. of scorn, of biting sarcasm. His vocabulary of vituperatton is unus- ually complete and he heaps denun- citations upon his auditors" silly asses who permit others to ride them, who starve that their riders may grow fat and heavier to carry. and who have not wit enough to talk or buck. " As for the rich-declaims Mann Well, who can blame them for rid ing such willing asses as you have shown yourselves to be?" And so he goes on calling his listeners fools with half a hundred variations, while the asses cheer wildly the doctrines of syndiealism sabotage