There was no difficulty in conceding this trifle, and the 'Tocsin' was the result.

The name was a suggestion of the oil merchant himself, and no bad name if Socialists at large could be supposed capable of understanding it; but the oil merchant was too important a man to be thwarted, and the argument by which he supported his choice was incontestable.

'Isn't it our aim to educate the people?
Very well, then let them begin by knowing what Tocsin means.

I shouldn't know myself if I hadn't come across it in the newspaper and looked it up in the dictionary; so there you are!' And there was the 'Tocsin,' a weekly paper like the 'Fiery Cross.' The first number appeared in the middle of February, so admirably prepared were the plans of Comrade Roodhouse.

It appeared on Friday; the next Sunday promised to be a lively day at Commonwealth Hall and elsewhere.
At the original head-quarters of the Union addresses were promised from two leading men, Comrades Westlake and Mutimer.