John Burns: The Rise and Progress of a Right Honourable (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Joseph Burgess

9780331884944: John Burns: The Rise and Progress of a Right Honourable (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331884941 ISBN 13: 9780331884944

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Excerpt from John Burns: The Rise and Progress of a Right Honourable

IT was no part of my original intention to write a preface to this book, but to let it, with only such introduction as would be furnished by Mr. Hynd man in his Foreword, speak for itself. But, Since reading Mr. Hyndman's introduction, it has suggested itself to me that it were wise to explain the motives which impelled me to write the book itself. It is not because of any pleasure in the job.

What Hyndman says about Burns's egotism I can corroborate. Hyndman refers to a coat pulling incident of which he was the victim. I remember seeing, from my seat at the press table at the Cardiff Trades Congress, Burns pulling the coat-tails of an American fraternal delegate. This was the first time fraternal delegates from America had attended the British Trades Union Congress. They had travelled more than three thousand miles to deliver their message. But Burns could not abide to hear it out. The first delegate was not on his feet more than ten minutes before Burns tugged at him to sit down. I once discussed this habit of Burns with Will Crooks, when he told me he never by any chance sat next to Burns on a platform.

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