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One other vivid memory Eddie has is visiting one George (?) Sumpres of Leeds who had a room absolutely full of Kerr books for sale.

It is surprising that Kerrs (and other American material especially Vanguard Press & SLP pamphlets) were so important here and it would be very interesting to speculate why this was so. I suppose the simple reason was that there was no major socialist publishing co. here publishing anything on any sizeable scale. Most socialist literature published here was put out by strictly commercial companies although a number were sympathetic, to some degree, to the labor movement. I'm thinking here of Sam Sonenschein, T. Fisher Unwin & Co. Allen & Unwin in particular. The socialist publishing houses that did sell material on a large scale i.e.. the Clarion Press, Fabian Society/Grant Richards and the ILP Publication Dept supplied little or