"If we turn back to the time when the first compulsory education act was passed, we find that the capitalists of England fought these acts with all their might, but that they soon withdrew their opposition and supported them. For the employers recognised that though the children would know a little more, the amount could be so restricted that the result would only be to make them better wage slaves, knowing no more of freedom than what we have known and experienced of it."
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William Earsman
William Paisley Earsman (March 16, 1884 - January 13, 1965) was one of the founding members of the Communist Party of Australia and its first general secretary.
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