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Joseph Burgess (1853–1934) was a British journalist and Labour politician. He was born on 3 July 1853 in Failsworth, Lancashire, the third of six children of handloom weavers, and educated at a print works school in Failsworth. He started work in a card-cutting room at the age of six and worked as a cotton operative until he was 28. He married three times, having six children and died January 1934. == Career == He was active in the creation of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and the Labour Party. He unsuccessfully ran as an ILP parliamentary candidate for Leicester in 1894 and 1895 before taking a role of organising secretary for the ILP between 1897 and 1902. He was a member of the Glasgow City Council between 1902-5 and unsuccessfully ran as an ILP candidate for Glasgow Camlachie in 1906, and Montrose in 1908 and 1910. He resigned from the ILP in 1915. Throughout his career he was involved in newspapers: * 1881: correspondent for a local newspaper * 1884: started his own short-lived paper, the ''Oldham Operative'' * 1885–89: sub-editor of the ''Cotton Factory Times'' * 1889–91: manager of the ''Yorkshire Factory Times'' * 1891–93: editor of ''Workman's Times'' * 1914: editor of the ''Bradford Pioneer'' * 1919: editorial staff for the ''London Evening Standard'' and the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joseph Burgess」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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