What aspect of the Labour or Socialist question Tom did deal with on that occasion I cannot say, as I was not there to listen. We saw him off at Waterloo Station and Wal Hannington, the Communist, and of unemployment leader fame in England, brought a deputation of them there, and speeches, appropriate of farewell, were given on the platform.

We heard afterwards, and in fact I now have photographs, of a much rousing reception he received at the docks on his arrival in Cape Town. He was met by a strongly organised procession of trade unions and Socialists, including all the leading Labour Party members of the Peninsula. Banners of the various trade unions were carried with that of the Labour Party and Socialists, and thousands massed in the procession

The Cape Time's photographers took the whole demonstration during the time they had halted to sing the "Red Flag." It was in the moments of the last verse, "With heads uncovered swear we all, To bear it onward till we fall." Whether he was carried away by the emotion enthusiasm of the demonstration, or whether to show respect as a matter of courtesy, I don't know, but the photograph shows Colonel F.T. P. Creswell's cap raised and his head bowed to the strain of that mournful verse. Tom, in another close up, is shown standing between Mrs. W. H. Harrison and Mrs. Robert Stuart, as the wives of us two representing the Socialists and trade unions of the Cape Peninsula. The Cape Times published all the photographs in their intaglio supplement on October and, 1922.

These combined bodies ran meetings in the Cape Peninsula and in every important industrial town of South Africa. On his return trip in England Bunting and I met him in mid-ocean on our return, and he wirelessed across to us his fraternal greetings-but more about that eventful voyage of our return later.

Bunting eventually arrived with his wife from Russia and I met them at Bunting's home in London. He was the son of Sir Percy Bunting, a London barrister, and he afterwards took some apartments near my home in the Guildford area and we attended the weekly meetings of a Socialist body in that town.

Sylvia Pankhurst at Guildford

Prominent speakers were invited to address these meetings, and we were favoured during our stay to listen to the famous Sylvia Pankhurst, who with her sister, Christabel, and their mother were prominent in the turmoil of the early suffragette movement (votes for women). Sylvia was always the most "red" and the most unconven­tional in all her walks of life. Neither she nor Christabel ever married, but there was another sister, not so prominent, who married a Labour leader, I believe, in Australia. Sylvia does not appear to be able to fit in with any movement. She once ran a paper of independent Communist views known as the Dreadnought. The very title, of course, shows her fighting spirit, but alas famous "battleship" sank before her fight was finished and she sought other ways of war strategy against the Capitalist system.

Then, at that meeting at Guildford in 1922, Sylvia, true to her reputation, was at variance with the Moscow Third International, and used arguments which in her opinion showed the necessity for a Fourth. In fact, I believe she wrote to Lenin challenging him to debate the matter, and I quite expect she thought a rural town like Guildford would be a good place to postulate the Fourth International programme, not, of course, supposing that she would meet Bunting there fresh from the Third International Congress. After her address Bunting adroitly turned the discussion in its favour and roundly trounced for "pushing her own little barrow" against the colossal successful Third International machine.

Sylvia didn't wait for further discussion but immediately sprang to her feet to reply, but it was a poor effort. The last I heard of Sylvia's stunts was that she was "nursing" Hailie Selassie, the Abyssinian Emperor, before he returned there, but there is no news yet of her Communist teaching in that slave country bearing much fruit. However, between us we got the attention of the meeting, and as we were leaving the secretary stopped us and asked if we would give an evening at a future date. This we agreed to do Bunting then nave them one hour and twenty-five minutes on the Third' International and his recent visit to Russia, and I gave them twenty-five minutes on Socialist propaganda in South Africa.

They banqueted us before the meeting at one of the private hotels, so altogether we had a very successful meeting. We made the acquaintance of their prospective Labour candidate for the Guildford division-Percy Collick, a well-informed man, whom I thought t revolutionary for a Conservative constituency like Guildford.

On a subsequent visit to England in 1929, at the General Election there in, I think; 1950, he was then a candidate for the Reigate division of Surrey, and I presided at a meeting in the Abinger Hammer School room, reminiscent of my childhood-even then I was a bad boy, as the governess shut me in a cupboard there as punishment. Collick gave a lucid exposition of the principles of Socialism as I also heard many other Labour candidates in England. I wondered what was their quarrel with the English Communist Party and I put that question to Percy Collick. His reply was that whatever revolutionary expressions he made their company was never right for them, which he supposed meant that you could not be right unless you were a member of the Communist Party. I had heard such from many and experienced it myself.

Collick is now M. P. and Secretary for Agriculture.