  At first, the Priors lived in a handsome Georgian hotel close to the famous libraries of the British Museum and University College, but they quickly moved into cheaper accommodation in Lambeth. They were a short stroll from the bustling working-class street market of Lambeth Walk, and not far from overcrowded and insanitary slums. No doubt Lambeth reinforced the views Arthur had expressed the year before in the Otago Daily Times, under the pseudonym ‘Independent Labour’: ‘We must all fight either with the wage-earners for a society of wage-earners or with the profit-seekers for a society of profit-seekers’. For Arthur the ‘fundamental question’ was: ‘Are the workers going to group together to organise and undertake their own enterprise, or are they going to be at the beck and call of a privileged class’ (Prior 1937a).