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was some years off, he claimed that "when the people were unenfranchised, were without votes, the only power left to them was the demonstration of numbers. Now, however, the workmen have votes." In 1890,
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In 1878, Shipton travelled to Paris, leading the English delegation at an early international labour conference. In February 1880, he stood as an
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Shipton worked as a builder and became involved in trade unionism by joining the
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Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress
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on 18 December 1890, but stood down at the next elections, in 1891.
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Members of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress
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The Warwick guide to British labour periodicals, 1790-1970
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The "NEW" Trade Unionism: a reply to Mr George Shipton
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Amalgamated Society of House Decorators and Painters
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Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the TUC
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trade unionist

Land and Labour League
George Odger
London Trades Council
London Amalgamated Painters
independent
Southwark
London Trades Council
The Bee-Hive
The Labour Standard
Friedrich Engels
Secretary of the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress
New Unionism
universal franchise
Tom Mann
Ben Tillett
London School Board
British Working Class Politics, 1832-1914
Operative Stone Masons Society
the original
Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy
the original
Tom Mann Collection
the original
The Liverpool Congress
The Daily News
George Odger
London Trades Council
James MacDonald

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