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Title: Who Will Go? Author: Freedom Press, Anonymous Date: April, 1890 Language: en Topics: Freedom Press, Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism Source: Freedom: A Journal of Anarchist Socialism, Vol. 4, No. 41, online source http://www.revoltlib.com/?id=3173, retrieved on May 8, 2020. Notes: Freedom Press, edtior
A comrade writes to us from Staffordshire: "I am sorry I cannot report
any progress in propaganda or 'increase in numbers. It is difficult to
agitate here; the workers live scattered about and are in a deplorable
state of ignorance. Many of the older men and women can neither read nor
write sad the ""adult classes" here only serve the purpose of hypocrisy
and superstition, the "education" consisting merely in reading and
writing from the Bible. What we require is a few intelligent and
energetic young follows to settle down and work among the miners,
quarrymen, brickmakers, sanitary pipe makers, iron-founders or
furnacemen. Wages, of course, are very low, but a single man can board
and lodge very well for 15s. weekly. We should certainly do our best to
find such a comrade a job at something, but be must be willing to go
among the men where they meet, that is, in the various public-houses,
where he must mix with and talk to them. I am confident they would
listen. It would require some sacrifice, but I am of opinion that we
English should learn a little more than we have done from our Russian
friends and their mode of propaganda. I believe a private agitation
conducted in such a manner would have more chance of success than any
public meetings or lectures."
Will any one volunteer?