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John Battley : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Battley John Rose Battley, JP FRSA (26 November 1880 – 1 November 1952) was a British printer, company director and Labour Party politician. He served on the London County Council and was Member of Parliament for Clapham for a single five-year term. He was a notable pacifist and conscientious objector. ==Early life== John Rose Battley was born on 26 November 1880 to Adah Elizabeth Battley (née Maderson), a seamstress, and George Battley, a labourer who later opened a grocer's shop. His mother died in 1887 (in JRB's words) "due to working as a sempstress at her treadle sewing machine night after night into the early hours of the morning in order to help my father, who was a casual labourer, to provide their children with a fair share of bread and dripping for breakfast and tea, and boiled rice for dinner." Battley attended the Basnett Road Elementary School, leaving aged 13 to become a printer's apprentice. He found this experience quite distressing, describing the "mischief done to my mind and soul as a lad" but later set up his own printing firm with his brother George in 1905. At a time when a week's paid holiday was standard in the printing trade, Battley Brothers offered a fortnight. In addition, they offered their employees a Sick & Funeral Fund, Endowment Fund, Hospital Savings Association, Study Circle, Staff Samaritans Fund, the firm's sports teams, pay higher than the trade union standard, Christmas boxes, a silver spoon for every baby born to an employee, as well as contributing half the cost of employees' overalls and their laundering.
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