Welcoming the foundation of the Alfred Williams Heritage Society, Martin Wicks, secretary of Swindon TUC, said Alfred's writing still has relevance to industrial/working life today.

Martin has written a feature about Alfred and the society on the official website of the Swindon Trades Union Council, where he has praised Life in a Railway Factory, Alfred's record of his own experiences of Swindon Railway Works, where he worked for more than 20 years.

Martin said Life in a Railway Factory was "one of the best books written on industrial life", and a work that "anybody interested in working class and Labour movement history should know about, and read".

Alfred was a personal friend of Reuben George, whom many consider the father of the Labour movement in Swindon, but was unable to reconcile his own struggle with what he saw as the radicalism of the then fledgling socialism of the day.

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