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Show MINER TO PREMIER The Right Hon. Andrew Fisher, ex-primo ex-primo minister of Australia, who has gone to London to toko up tho duties of high commissioner for tho commonwealth, common-wealth, in succession to Sir George Reld, is M years of ago. He began llfo as a pit boy at 10, with his father, who was a working collier. Ho practically educated himself, and, as tho years went by, worked so earnestly for the betterment of the conditions under which his fellow workers labored that ho aroused the antagonism of employers, was blacklisted black-listed and forced to emigrate to obtain employment. This was in 1SS5, when he was 23 Eight years later he entered the Queensland parliament aftor working in tho gold fields, where his sterling character earned for him much popularity popu-larity among tho giggers. To his labor friends, however, he is still Andy, the pit boy of Kilmarnock. |