Several leading trade unionist wrote in support of this decision, including William Bailey of the Nottinghamshire Miners Association, William Edwin Harvey of the Derbyshire Miners Association and Havelock Wilson of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union.
For his trade union activity, he was dismissed from the local pit, but managed to find work at Sheepbridge, then later at Morton.
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