Horace J. Hawkins was a British

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. Hawkins was secretary of the Stratford (later Central

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) branch of the Social Democratic Federation from 1900 to 1903 and a speaker for that party. He proved to be important in the formation of the

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, being expelled, along with

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, at the Burnley conference of the SDF in April 1904, and serving on the SPGB Provisional Committee of May 1904. He was also on the first Executive Committee and was an outdoor speaker for the SPGB. Hawkins was expelled on 4 February 1905 for his personal harassment of

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. By 1910 Hawkins was in Australia and active as a De Leonist.Letter in ''The Socialist'', October 1910 He is last known of a year later as a member of the

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Club in Sydney.

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