OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 23834, 14 March 1941, Page 6

OBITUARY

m WILLIAM CUTRMERT WtMi (Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, March 13. The death occurred suddenly of Mr' William Cathbert M'Caw, a leading, Auckland orthopaedic surgeon, andi' chairman of the honorary staff of the; Auckland Hospital. Mr M‘Caw was?. 51 years of age and had been in tice in Auckland for nearly 20 years. Sift SHAH SIiIAiMAN Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopyrighli NEW: DELHI, March 13. (Received March 14, at 8 a.m.) ; The death is announced of Sir ShaHi Sulaiman, a judge of the Federal, Court 1 of India. . .

MR TOM MAKN

VETERAN SOCIALIST

Fmm Awocmtion—By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, March 13. (Received March 14, at 1 p.m.) The death is announced of Mr Toatf 'Mann, aged 85 years. ~

[Mr Mann bad a long and varied? career. IVitb ,Mr 1 ohn Burns, Mann largely created’ the “ New), Unionism ” of the ’eighties. He was*', born in Warwickshire in 1856, and her) was at work on a farm by the time/ he was nine years of age. From 11 till: 14 years of age he was working in «; mine, and after seven years’ apprentice-; ship in an engineering shop he invaded; London at the age of 21 and joined the?' Amalgamated Society of Engineers* Education was his main desire in those*, days, and he came in touch with the co-operative movement and the works of Henry George, making a journey to the United States, where he worked for. six months, and joining .the Social Democratic Federation on his returiv to Britain. It was only a matter "off time before he' abandoned his trad® and became a lecturer for the federal tion, and soon ho was one of its leading' speakers. In 1889 he aided the organisation of the Gas Workers’ Union and* helped to run the great docks being elected president of the Dockers\ Union at the close of the dispute. 1891 he was a member of a Commission on Labour, and three; years later became secretary of; the Independent , Labour Party -i. Here be remained until 1696, but early iu the century he left England for the j Dominions and “ worked energetically* as an agitator’-’ (as he himself said) in.* Australia and New Zealand. In thara course of this tour he gave addresses inj Dunedin. ” It was only in 1911 that bat went back to England and there b»j became the main source of the Syndi-i calist propaganda which was. launched; at this time. In 1892 he had offered) himself as candidate for secretary of I the Amalgamated Society of Engineers,; but failed to be elected. In 1919 ha.' stood again, and the reconstructed ' society, now known as the Am alga-, mated Engineering Union, elected himto the post. That position he held until* 1921, but he was involved in another. J schism and from 1934 became a leaden? of the “ Minority ’ ’ Labour Movement* j Ho was deported from Belfast, whered the Government of Northern Ireland, objected to his attempting to preach th®; cause of Communism. This was duri*; ing the riots in the northern city, and; Mr Mann’s mission, it was. reported* was to organise a general strike. Ha-. returned to England and there wa* associated with the “ March on London ” by the unemployed, being arrested along with Hannington and Llewellyn, the prime, movers in th® affair, and sentenced to prison.]