Author: Garton, Richard (1857-1934); Burns, John (1858-1943). English trade unionist and Liberal Member of Parliament.
Title: 1900 Battersea Parliamentary Election Ephemera: The Ephemera Consists of 3 Issues of the Battersea Labour Gazette. [Together with]: 3 Pamphlets Including One Titled "to the Electors" by John Burns, Another on Temperance, and Burns Speech of September 25 at Battersea Town Hall. In Addition a Broadside from Richard Garton Defending the Wages He Pays.
Description: Battersea, UK: F.W. Worthy and Kent & Matthews, 1900. 1900. Battersea, UK: F.W. Worthy and Kent & Matthews, 1900. 1900. Very good. - The collection includes: Three issues of The Battersea Labour Gazette, The Organ of the Trades and Labour Progressive Movement. Folio, 17-1/2 inches high by 11-1/4 inches wide. Softcovers, each issue with 4-pages and with a portrait of John Burns on the front wrapper. (September 29, October 1, and October 13, 1900). A pamphlet of the "Speech Delivered by John Burns at the Battersea Town Hall on Tuesday, September 25, 1900". Octavo, 10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, laid into printed cream wrappers with a portrait of John Burns on the front cover. 8 pages including the wrappers. "To the Electors of Battersea" by John Burns. Octavo, 10-1/2 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, 4 pages including a blank. "Battersea Parliamentary Election Tuesday, October 2nd, 1900. To all Electors who are interested in Temperance, Social, and Moral Reform." Octavo, 10-3/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. 4 pages. "Another Radical Lie Nailed. The Truth about the Wages paid by Richard Garton". Small octavo, 7-3/8 inches high by 4-3/4 inches wide. A small broadside printed on cream paper. The issues of "The Battersea Labour Gazette" are folded both horizontally and vertically with slight soiling to the cover pages and creases to the edges. The pamphlets are also folded horizontally with some slight soiling and minor tears or creases. Very good. A rare collection of political ephemera. A great deal of the content of the September 29 Labour Gazette is an attack on the brewer Sir Richard Garton and the wages he paid his workers. His broadside, "Another Radical Lie Nailed", was his reply to the attacks he received in the Gazette and the jeers he endured during a speech he gave on September 24 as the Conservative candidate for Battersea. The 4th page of this issue sports a vicious cartoon against Joseph Chamberlain. The cartoon is signed "GEE" and has the caption: "The Angel of Death to Chamberlain: This is Your Show!". Chamberlain is pictured with the Angel of Death Looking over the bodies of numerous soldiers. Burns was strongly opposed to the Second Boer War. The second page of the September 1 issue of the Gazette bears the exclamatory title: "BATTERSEA! Read and Choose. Which will you have? BURNS AND BRAINS or, BEER AND BOUNCE". In an article titled "Imported Bullies in Battersea" signed by William Sanders, Secretary of Burns' Election Committee, Burns' anti-Semitism is on display. In describing a plot to break up a committee meeting the article states "The arrangements were being made through a well-known Jew of Covent Garden (whose name is in my possession)..". The Gazette of October 13 publishes the James Connell poem "Workers of England" under the title "Battersea's Call to Arms". James Connell was an Irish journalist, born, in Kishyre, 1852 and died 1929 in London. He is most well known for writing the song, The Red Flag. This is an early printing of "Workers of England", written as a song in the 1890's. Sir Richard Charles Garton (1857- 1934) was a sugar manufacturer and brewer. He was a pioneer in the production of liquid glucose and director of Manbre and Garton brewing sugar manufacturers. John Burns (1858-1943) Was an English trade unionist and was actively involved in the politics of Battersea. He was a dominant figure in the great London dock strike of 1889. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Battersea and Clapham, Battersea in 1892 and left the House of Commons in 1918. Burns's opposition to the Second Boer War (1899–1902) exposed his anti-Semitic views when he made unsubstantiated claims that Jewish financial institutions were part of a secret cabal influencing the war. Very good .

Keywords: HISTORY; POLITICS; BRITISH; 1900 BATTERSEA PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION EPHEMERA; RICHARD GARTON; JOHN BURNS; THE BATTERSEA LABOUR GAZETTE; NEWSPAPER; PAMPHLETS; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; TO THE ELECTORS; THE ANGEL OF DEATH TO CHAMBERLAIN: THIS IS YOUR SHOW;


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