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but he started at the very bottom. After schooling, Yeo found work in an iron foundry. He told one of the London newspapers that at the age of eleven he had had to work for 84 hours a week, or 14 hours a day, for six days a week. He later worked for thirty years in business in the music trade
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reform and spoke at a number of public meetings to demand an end to what were described as cruel methods of slaughtering animals for food and calling for the compulsory introduction of mechanically operated humane-killers.
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Parliament again but at the time of his death he was Liberal candidate for
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however he lost the seat by the wide margin of 4,338 votes.
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system, a form of Chinese child slavery then prevalent in
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a by-election which had been caused by the resignation of
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