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C. Allen Clarke
Charles Allen Clarke (1863–1935), most widely known as C. Allen Clarke, was an English working-class humorist, novelist, journalist and social investigator from Lancashire. An ILP member and friend of Robert Blatchford, Clarke succeeded Joseph Burgess as editor of the ''Yorkshire Factory Times''.
==Life==
Born in Bolton, Clarke left school at thirteen, when he moved with his parents to Mirfield and worked half-time in a mill. The family soon moved back to Bolton, where he continued to work, while studying in his spare time at Hulton School. He became a pupil-teacher there, and he continued to teach for seven years, after which he took a post with the ''Bolton Evening News''. Initially, his work was mundane, copying records and compiling directories, but the local engineers' strike of 1887 inspired him to become more political, and he joined the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) the following year, when Tom Mann founded a local branch.〔Margaret 'Esipinasse, ''Dictionary of Labour Biography'' (vol.5), pp.64-70〕
Clarke founded his own newspaper in 1890, the ''Labour Light'', on which he employed James Haslam in his first journalistic role. The two also worked with J. R. Clynes in an attempt to found a trade union for cotton piecers in Lancashire. Both projects were unsuccessful, but Clarke founded a new paper in 1891, the ''Bolton Trotter'',[Bolton Engineers' Strike as its backdrop, though Clarke added both a love story and a sensational crime plot.]
Clarke moved towards spiritualism in the 1890s, affected by some family tragedies and apparently encountering the psychic powers of his second wife.
Clarke stood as the Labour Representation Committee candidate for Rochdale at the 1900 UK general election, supported by both the SDF and the Independent Labour Party (ILP), of which he was now also a member. He opposed the Second Boer War, and called for state pensions and the nationalisation of the railways and coal mines. He took 901 votes and third place. In the same year, he moved back to Bolton to become editor of the ''Northern Weekly'', then back to Blackpool in 1906, where he continued to edit the ''Weekly'' and ''Teddy Ashton's Journal''. He also wrote for the ''Liverpool Weekly Post'' and ''Blackpool Gazette'', and produced a series of novels.〔
Clarke trained his younger brother, Tom Clarke, as a journalist, and Tom later became editor of the ''Daily News'' and ''News Chronicle''.〔
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