WROTE “THE RED FLAG
MR. JIM CONNELL DEAD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Monday. The death has occurred of Mr. Jim Connell, secretary of the Workmen’s Legal Friendly Society. Deceased was the author of “The Red Flag.” The late Mr. Connell was born in Ireland. He used to say that he was educated “under a hedge for a few weeks.” He put on record that he had been a sheep-farmer, dock labourer, navvy, railwayman, draper, journalist, lawyer (of a sort), and all the time a poacher. In addition to “The Red Flag” his works included Socialist poems and songs, “The Confessions of a Poacher,” “The Truth About the Game Laws,” “The Horse, and How to Treat Him,” “Socialism and the Survival of the Fittest,” and “Brothers at Last.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 9
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129WROTE “THE RED FLAG Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 586, 12 February 1929, Page 9
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