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Horace Hawkins


Horace Hawkins Horace Hawkins DempsIter 1874 1930 Genealogy

James Horace Hawkins


Horace J. Hawkins was a British socialist.

Horace Hawkins Reverend Horace Hawkins ca 1890s

Hawkins was secretary of the Stratford (later Central West Ham) branch of the Social Democratic Federation from 1900 to 1903 and a speaker for that party. He proved to be important in the formation of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, being expelled, along with Jack Fitzgerald, at the Burnley conference of the SDF in April 1904, and serving on the SPGB Provisional Committee of May 1904. He was also on the first Executive Committee and was an outdoor speaker for the SPGB. Hawkins was expelled on 4 February 1905 for his personal harassment of Alexander Anderson.

By 1910 Hawkins was in Australia and active as a De Leonist. He is last known of a year later as a member of the IWW Club in Sydney.

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