The Cotton Factory Times. — 1920-06-11 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

WEAVER'S SUICIDE. _ Drink, Separation, and Death.  At Burnley, on Saturday, an inquest was held on Samuel Hartley (47), weaver, who formerly resided at 51, Frazer-street, and whose body was recovered from the canal on Friday morning. Miss Bridge, weaver, 48, Peart-etreet. said she was informed that there was • body in the canal. The body was quite warm when she arrived, and she applied artdicial respiration for an hour, but with. success. Mary Ann Hartley, the wife, Aid her husband had been drinkang brandy, and on March 24th she obtained a separation order on the ground of persistent cruelty. In consequence of hie only having made two payments she issued a warrant Against him, soil he again appeared before the magistrates on Thursday week. He then paid part of the money owing to her, but the same evening came to her house under the influence of drink, the police haring to be sent for to turn him out. Ile was like a madman when he had been drinking.—P.C. Barrow*lough spoke to finding the following letter in Hartiey's jacket pocket:— " Dear Brother and Sister,—l write these few lines to see that you go to •Barlick.' lam leaving all my belongings to you. Don't bother about me; I have clone my best, and I can't enemy way to pay to that woman. hood-bye. Sam." A verdict of **Suicide whilst temporarily insane" wise returned.  and selfish of that time the seventoenth-century equivalents of " reds," " radicials," and Bolsfieviits," and such otser epdaets of that kind as were in use. They Were noneonlorMhita. They slid not conform to dominant opinion. It is a penalty that people always hate to pay who do not conform—first, penoecution ; second, misrepresentation ; and third, vilification.  „Many -Peopie in tills world 'even now are stupid enoag,i to believe, as there were people stupid enouga to thing then, that rebels against °stab. dahed churches and prince.— Couununists, Socialists and other Nonconformiste—are made by words. Tney think that if you speak some forbidden words to a man it makes a wild-eyed radical out of nim. Tee idea of people of that stage of stupidity is that if you could just atop folk from talking all wou,d be well. loon not deal with that kind of brain; I can not carry on any debate based on that kind of a theory. I am not willing to cast the little pearl or two 1 bare in any such endeavour. Now we have unrest in this country. We have a great deal of economic and industrial ainrest. We have very little political unrest. But this industrial and economic unrest may be converted into political unrest by political measures which make men feel that they are being persecuted. I have not the time now to say more than this. Communists are not made by words; Socialis.to ate not made by word*. They are made by the overpowering eloquence of situations, of injustice and of persecution. And 1 want to say again in my modest and apologetic way that the head of the Steel Corporation, in my lodgment, did more to provoke disoovitent in the United States than eveg agitator in it put together could ca-ethic doNv.en he stood in the President's industrial conference and refused to agree to a measure which would have roade for peace and harmony between the worker, and their employers.