Excerpt from The Apostle of Free Labour: The Life Story of William Collison; Founder and General Secretary of the National Free Labour Association A big burly fellow of a man - his name was Lord Salisbury said to me when I told him that Maltman Barry was writing the story of the foundation of the Independent Labour Party, Then I shan't read it to read such a book would mean hard labour for me. He was right, and as I respect his memory and his Opinions I am not going to write a book on the Labour Movement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.