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Monday, November 01, 2004

Hardie, J(ames) Keir

British labour leader, first to represent the workingman in Parliament as an Independent (1892) and first to lead the Labour Party in the House of Commons (1906). A dedicated socialist, he was also an outspoken pacifist (from the time of the South African, or Boer, War, 1899 - 1902) and the chief adviser (from 1903) to the militant suffragists headed by Emmeline

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