"''Tain't as I don't believe in you, Mr. Crooks. I likes you as well as ever I did; but men in our calling must keep an eye on the party that best helps business, you know!'
"I told him I did not understand.
"'Why,' said the undertaker, 'I could make a decent living when the death rate was 20 per 1,000. I can even get along nicely when it's 18; but since you've bin on the move, Mr. Crooks, I can't make a living nohow, with a death rate no more'n 14.'"
INDEX
- A
- B
- Baby-farming in London,
- Balfour, Mr. Arthur,
- Baptist Union, Crooks addresses the,
- Barnett, Canon,
- Beresford, Lord Charles,
- Bishop of London, The,
- Blackwall Tunnel, Crooks and the,
- Boarding-out children,
- Borough Councillor, Crooks as a,
- Brabazon Society and Poplar Workhouse,
- Brotherhoods, Men's,
- Burns, Mr. John,
- C
- Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H.,
- [195],
- [294]
- [9];
- [231],
- [11];
- [267]
- [232],
- [19];
- [235]
- [19];
- [214],
- [22];
- [217]
- [33];
- [23],
- [36];
- [76]
- [37];
- [115],
- [43];
- [144],
- [44];
- [185]
- [148],
- [45];
- [149]
- [171],
- [46];
- [198]
- [50];
- [119],
- [125]
- [67];
- [297]
- [69];
- [259]
- [72];
- [261]
- [73];
- [300]
- [75];
- [57],
- [76];
- [212]
- [81];
- [97]
- [82];
- [169-71]
- [41]
- [87];
- [3],
- [94];
- [6],
- [98];
- [18],
- [98];
- [36]
- [99];
- [73],
- [167],
- [249]
- [1];
- taken into the workhouse,
- sent to a Poor Law school,
- an errand-boy,
- at George Green schools,
- at Sunday School,
- books of his youth,
- at work in a smithy,
- apprenticed to coopering,
- nicknamed "Young John Bright,"
- first marriage,
- dismissed as an agitator,
- out of work,
- tramping experiences,
- finds work at Liverpool,
- his child's death there,
- gets work as a dock labourer,
- his "college" at the dock gates,
- his part in the Great Dock Strike,
- a dangerous illness,
- death of his first wife,
- his second marriage,
- the Will Crooks Wages Fund formed,
- his election to the London County Council,
- declines a partnership,
- refuses a rent-free house,
- his work on the L.C.C.,
- helps to formulate the Fair Wage Clause,
- is chosen Chairman of the Public Control Committee,
- declines the Vice-chairmanship of the L.C.C.,
- secures open spaces for Poplar,
- his overcoat stolen,
- pleads the cause of good craftsmanship,
- the Blackwall Tunnel one of his monuments,
- is chosen Chairman of the Bridges Committee,
- becomes a Guardian for Poplar,
- is elected Chairman of the Board,
- changes the composition of the Board and of its staff,
- abolishes the pauper's garb,
- reforms the workhouse,
- sends Poor Law children to Board Schools,
- provides a home for them,
- his work on the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
- a peace-maker among the poor,
- chosen Mayor of Poplar,
- organises the King's Dinner to the Poor at Poplar,
- receives the Prince and Princess of Wales,
- raises funds for a Coronation treat to children,
- his policy of paying old age pensions through the Poor Law,
- his first election for Woolwich,
- his maiden speech,
- advocates the payment of members,
- introduces a Women's Enfranchisement Bill,
- retires from the Poplar Borough Council,
- up and down the country,
- ridicules Protection and Preference,
- his efforts for the unemployed,
- advocates the provision of useful work,
- his activity as a member of the Poplar Distress Committee,
- his scheme for a Central Unemployed Committee adopted by Mr. Walter Long,
- his appeal to Mr. Balfour for rating powers for providing work,
- overwork and illness,
- secures the passing of the Unemployed Bill,
- his children,
- his home life described by the World,
- his morning's work sketched by Mr. G. R. Sims,
- his many-sided activity,
- his temperance work,
- his relations with the Free Churches,
- his schemes for colonising England,
- defends the Poplar Board of Guardians at the Local Government Inquiry (1906),
- sees his mistake in having remained Chairman of the Board,
- his reply to the Inspector's report,
- appeals to the public in defence of his policy,
- receives letters of encouragement,
- is assured by Mr. John Burns that there had been a misunderstanding,
- is besought not to leave Poplar,
- [264]
- Canada and the unemployed,
- Central Unemployed Committee,
- Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph,
- Chandler, Bishop,
- Chaplin, Mr. Henry,
- Chesterton, Mr. G. K.,
- Children correspondents of Crooks,
- Children, Poor Law,
- Children, Starving School,
- Christianity and the working classes,
- Churches and Labour,
- City Temple Speech,
- "College" at the Dock Gates, Crooks's,
- Collins, Sir William,
- Coronation festivities at Poplar,
- Craftsmanship, Need of,
- Crooks, Mrs., Will's mother; his tributes to,
- Crooks, Mrs., Will Crooks's second wife,
- Crooks, Will: born in a one-roomed home,
- Crown Lands and small holdings,
- Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H.,
- D
- E
- F
- Fair Rent Courts advocated by Crooks,
- Fair Wage Clause in the L.C.C.'s contracts,
- Farm Colonies,
- Feeding Necessitous Scholars,
- First offenders, Children as,
- Foreshore reclamation,
- Free Church Council, Crooks and the,
- Free Trade defended by Crooks,
- Frenchman, A, on Poplar,
- Fry, Mr. C. B.,
- G
- H
- I
- J
- Juvenile Offenders' Bill,
- K
- L
- Labour Co-partnership,
- Labour Representation Committee, The,
- Laindon Farm Colony,
- Lansbury, George,
- Lawson, Sir Wilfrid,
- Libraries for Poplar secured by Crooks,
- Licensing Bill of 1904,
- Liddon, Canon,
- Little Englanders,
- Local Government Board Inquiry at Poplar,
- London County Council,
- Long, Mr. Walter,
- M
- O
- P
- Parliament, Crooks's speeches in,
- Payment of Members,
- Peruvian Frigate Mutiny, The,
- Pirates hung at Blackwall,
- Political Economy, Crooks on,
- Poor Law, Pensions paid through the,
- Poor Law Commission,
- Poor Law Schools, Parliamentary Committee on,
- Poplar, A walk round, with Crooks,
- Poplar Board of Guardians, Crooks and the,
- Poplar Labour League,
- Poplar Municipal Alliance, The,
- Poplar Workhouse, Will Crooks an inmate of,
- Prince of Wales, The, and Crooks,
- Q
- Queen Alexandra and the unemployed,
- R
- S
- School of Marine Engineering at Poplar, Crooks and the,
- Scientific starvation,
- Sheldon, Rev. Charles,
- Sims, Mr. George R.,
- Slums as investments,
- Small holdings,
- South African War, Crooks's opposition to,
- Speaker, The, on the Woolwich by-election,
- Stanley, The Hon. Maud,
- Stone-breaking condemned by Crooks,
- Sutton Poor Law School, Crooks an inmate of the,
- Sweated women,
- T
- U
- V
- W
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