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By the mid-1890s Drew had helped found the
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went on strike. Drew, Gee and Turner provided leadership for the strikers and the strike gave a new impetus to trade unionism and a reinvigorated hope for independent political action. The strike may have failed in its primary objectives but after it had finished, the
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on Labour. By 1893, Drew's importance to the labour movement was very much recognised. At the inaugural conference of the
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and the Social Reform Union. He encouraged this organisation to conduct its own survey of unemployment which firmly discredited the statements put out by the
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and constant ill health. In 1891 he became president of the
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in 1854 and by the mid-1860s was working in agriculture. He began to be increasingly interested in politics at around the time that
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where he began work as a wool comber at
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was elected chairman. Drew was however, unanimously elected as vice chairman, and he was also elected to the party's first
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he showed fierce opposition and in 1907 left for Canada, returning to
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