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Hello!
This is the English page of Muijz (Erik van den Muijzenberg). I am a contributor to the Dutch Wikipedia. Sometimes I add a link here to the corresponding Dutch article, or I correct a minor mistake. I used to do that anonymously, but on May 26, 2004 I got the message that there was a message for me. I clicked, and then I read this:
- User talk:168.190.200.33
- If you continue to post nonsense articles you will be blocked from editing. Maximus Rex 13:49, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
So, I checked the User contributions. But those weren't my contributions. (Wasn't my IP address either.) Weird. (Here are my anonymous contributions.)
Anyway, I decided to create an account. If you can read Dutch, you can check my
Dutch Userpage too.
Cheers,
Muijz
Keir Hardie (15 August 1856 – 26 September 1915) was a Scottish
trade unionist and politician. He was a founder of the
Labour Party, and was the first
parliamentary leader of the Labour Party from 1906 to 1908. Hardie was born in
Newhouse, Lanarkshire. He started working at the age of seven, and from the age of ten worked in the
Lanarkshire coal mines. With a background in preaching, he became known as a talented public speaker and was chosen as a spokesman for his fellow miners. Hardie initially supported
William Ewart Gladstone's
Liberal Party, but later concluded that the working class needed its own party. He first stood for election to Parliament in 1888 as an independent, and later that year helped form the
Scottish Labour Party. Hardie won the English seat of
West Ham South as an independent candidate in 1892, and helped to form the
Independent Labour Party the following year. He lost his seat in 1895, but was re-elected to Parliament in 1900 for
Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales. During the same year, he helped to form the union-based Labour Representation Committee, which was later renamed the Labour Party. This photograph of Hardie was taken by
George Grantham Bain in 1909.
Photograph credit: George Grantham Bain; restored by Adam Cuerden
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