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Walking tour to celebrate WWI objector John Burns

A LONDON trades council will this weekend celebrate a socialist MP’s principled resignation from government over Britain’s race to join the first world war.

Battersea and Wandsworth TUC unveiled plans for a walking tour of John Burns’s former constituency yesterday — exactly 100 years after the outbreak of the war.

Members will retrace the steps of BWTUC’s founder, beginning at 1pm at his grave in Battersea before a dedication at the union-owned Bread and Roses pub in Clapham at 4pm.

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