Fred Bower had a full adventurous life and wrote about it in his
own vivid and racy idiom. He was born in Boston, Mass. in 1871.
Brought up in Liverpool, he recalls a city of two camps, when it
was a common sight to see gory battles on St Patrick's day and July
12th. His travels and his work took him to Donara, Edinburgh,
Glasgow, Guelph, Ithaca, London, Manchester, New York, Peapack
(NJ), Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Titusville, Trenton, West Newton,
not to mention time spent tramp steaming all the way to Australia
and back. He combined the stonemason's craft with diverse
activities: prospecting for gold, and working for the Labour
Movement. His life the labour movement is interwoven with tales of
Francisco Ferrer, Victor Grayson, Jim Larkin, Tom Mann, Philip
Snowden and others. He tells you of that dreadful 'bloody Sunday'
of 1911 in Liverpool and of his notorious DON'T SHOOT leaflet,
inciting soldiers not to kill strikers. He left a secret message to
posterity buried in the foundations of Liverpool Cathedral- a story
that resurfaces in Liverpool papers. An autobiography of a
Socialist, Syndicalist, Tramp, and Traveller. He died in 1942.
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