George Haw.

CONTENTS

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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[241]
CHAPTER XXIX.
Home Life and Some Engagements[252]
CHAPTER XXX.
Colonising England[264]
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Revival of Bumbledom[271]
CHAPTER XXXII.
Appeal to the People[280]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
The Happy Warrior[296]
CHAPTER XXXIII.
"The Happy Warrior"[296]
INDEX[303]

LIST OF PLATES

Will Crooks, M.P.[Frontispiece]
The Crooks Family[Facing p. 18]
Will Crooks Addressing an Open-Air Meeting at Woolwich[192]
Mr. and Mrs. Will Crooks[248]