Colonial governments dismissed labor organizers as self-serving frauds unrepresentative of workers.

Evidence

Its members, some of whom are of but doubtful reputation, are for the most part not workingmen, and have no stake in the colony. They have adopted their title simply with the object of securing recognition by the English Labour Party and thus obtaining for themselves an importance that they would not otherwise possess. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1183

Categorization

• QUESTION: How standard was this dismissal rhetoric across British colonies? Worth comparing with similar colonial denunciations of nationalist organizers.