"RED FLAG" FLIES HALF-MAST.
JIM CONNELL, AUTHOR OF SONG, DIES. RECREATION WAS POACHING.
London, Sunday.
Mr. Jim Connell, author of "The Red Flag" and other Socialist songs and
poems died today.[Deceased's name appears in that compilation of diverse talent, "Who's Who."
Therein his biography reads:
"Secretary, Workmen's Legal Friendly Society. Born Killokyre, Crossakill,
County Meath; parents farmers. Married, one daughter. Education, "under
a hedge for a few weeks"". "Has been farmer, dock laborer, navvy, railwayman,
journalist, draper, lawyer (of a sort); and all the time a poacher.
Publications : "The Red Flag," and other Socialist songs and poems;
"The Confessions of Poacher," 'The Truth About the Game Laws,'
'Glasgow Municipal Enterprise,' 'The Horse, and How to Treat Him,'
'Socialism and the Survival of the Fittest,'. 'Brothers at Last.'
'Recreation, Poaching.']
Notes
From the Queensland Newspaper The Daily Standard 12 Feb 1929 p. 4.
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