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 | | Patrick Hodgens Hickey was born in Waimea South, Nelson, New Zealand, on 19 January 1882; he was the fourth of seven children of Irish Catholic immigrants Thomas Hickey, a farmer, and his wife, Mary Jane Hodgens. |
 | | Together with H. Fitzgerald, a Canadian revolutionary, Hickey formed a branch of the New Zealand Socialist Party and began urging the miners to take action on their various grievances with the company. |
 | | The rashest decision came when Hickey and Young persuaded the executive to call a one-day general strike; when that failed, and Young had been arrested for sedition, Hickey appealed to the railwaymen to join in despite their leaders' resistance. |
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