Radicalism, the second phase: Rural labour and the wages board 1910–21

When Richard Winfrey stormed out of the special union congress of 1911, he turned to Herbert Day and accused him of ‘marshalling’ the forces of labour to take the union over. The ILP, he said, had ‘captured’, the union. ¹ ‘Would, oh would it were true’, Day might have replied for, though there was some Labour and indeed socialist strength on the new executive, it was limited. When one turns to the villages and the branches themselves, it was more limited still.