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In 1924, Ellen Wilkinson returned to her home city of Manchester as a newly elected Labour member of Parliament and spoke to several thousand people in a cinema in Moston.
Wilkinson attacked the capitalist system and its responsibility for declining wages since 1900, while the wealth in the hands of the few had grown.
She said that taxes for the rich were being reduced while the poor were the "victims of the profiteer" and finished by saying: "This is not a fight for party but a crusade for the freedom of the human race."
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