CONTENTS

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George Haw
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Introduction xiii
CHAPTER I.
Earliest Years in a One-Roomed Home 1
CHAPTER II.
As a Child in the Workhouse 8
CHAPTER III.
Schools and Schoolmasters 16
CHAPTER IV.
Round the Haunts of his Boyhood 25
CHAPTER V.
In Training for a Craftsman 33
CHAPTER VI.
Tramping the Country for Work 43
CHAPTER VII.
One of London's Unemployed 50
CHAPTER VIII.
The College at the Dock Gates 57
CHAPTER IX.
From the Cheering Multitude to a Sorrow-laden Home 67
CHAPTER X.
A Labour Member's Wages 75
CHAPTER XI.
On the London County Council 85
CHAPTER XII.
Two of his Monuments 96
CHAPTER XIII.
The Task of his Life Begins 105
CHAPTER XIV.
The Man who Fed the Poor 112
CHAPTER XV.
Turning Workhouse Children into Useful Citizens 119
CHAPTER XVI.
On the Metropolitan Asylums Board 128
CHAPTER XVII.
A Bad Boys' Advocate 134
CHAPTER XVIII.
Proud of the Poor 144
CHAPTER XIX.
The First Working-Man Mayor in London 154
CHAPTER XX.
The King's Dinner—and Others 166
CHAPTER XXI.
The Man who Paid Old-age Pensions 175
CHAPTER XXII.
Election to Parliament 186
CHAPTER XXIII.
Advent of the Political Labour Party 195
CHAPTER XXIV.
The Living Wage for Men and Women 202
CHAPTER XXV.
Free Trade in the Name of the Poor 210
CHAPTER XXVI.
Preparing for the Unemployed Act 219
CHAPTER XXVII.
Agitation in the House of Commons 227
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Queen Intervenes

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