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In March 1883 he gave an address at Manchester on " Art, Wealth and Riches "; in May he was elected upon the executive of the federation.

In September he wrote the first of his " Chants for Socialists.

" About the same time he shocked the authorities by pleading in University Hall for the wholesale support of socialism among the undergraduates at Oxford.

To the surprise of many who saw him as a respectable poet and decorator from that point on he threw himself wholeheartedly into the nascent Socialist movement, becoming co-author of the Social Democratic Federation manifesto.