Post by Mitch on Feb 13, 2005 15:15:00 GMT
"No, I wouldn't like to die, sir, for I think the good Lord's hard
On us common workin' women; an' the like o' me's debarred
From His high, uncertain heaven, where fine ladies all go to.
So I try to keep on livin', though the Lord knows how I do."
(Tom Maguire, 'Machine Room Chants' (1895)
"People call themselves Socialists (Tom Maguire wrote to a friend), but what they really are is just ordinary men with Socialist opinions hung round, they haven't got it inside of them ... It's hard, very hard; we get mixed up in disputes among ourselves ... and can't keep a straight line for the great thing, even if we all of us know what that is".
(Isabella Ford (ed.), 'Tom Maguire, A Remembrance', (Manchester, 1895).
Tom Maguire played a key role in the Yorkshire Independent Labour Party, big round these 'ere parts in Lancashire as well. He was also a poet, a 'point of junction between the theoretical understanding of the national leaders, the moral teaching of Morris and Carpenter, and the needs and aspirations of his own people". (see E.P. Thompson, 'Homage to Tom Maguire', in 'Essays in Labour History', (1960), Briggs et al)
On us common workin' women; an' the like o' me's debarred
From His high, uncertain heaven, where fine ladies all go to.
So I try to keep on livin', though the Lord knows how I do."
(Tom Maguire, 'Machine Room Chants' (1895)
"People call themselves Socialists (Tom Maguire wrote to a friend), but what they really are is just ordinary men with Socialist opinions hung round, they haven't got it inside of them ... It's hard, very hard; we get mixed up in disputes among ourselves ... and can't keep a straight line for the great thing, even if we all of us know what that is".
(Isabella Ford (ed.), 'Tom Maguire, A Remembrance', (Manchester, 1895).
Tom Maguire played a key role in the Yorkshire Independent Labour Party, big round these 'ere parts in Lancashire as well. He was also a poet, a 'point of junction between the theoretical understanding of the national leaders, the moral teaching of Morris and Carpenter, and the needs and aspirations of his own people". (see E.P. Thompson, 'Homage to Tom Maguire', in 'Essays in Labour History', (1960), Briggs et al)
