Here's a picture of a young Philip Josephs, taken in Glasgow sometime before leaving for New Zealand. From Sewing Freedom:
"As well as establishing a small tailor shop at 64 Taranaki Street,
Josephs quickly bolstered the ranks of the [Wellington] city’s radicals,
involving himself in solidarity
demonstrations against the injustices suffered by his fellow Russian
workers during the 1905 Revolution. At the same time as Parisian and
London workers gathered in their hundreds to hear Russian anarchists
like Kropotkin speak on the massacre of Bloody Sunday and the situation
in Russia, Josephs was bringing the horrors of his homeland to the
workers of Wellington. On numerous occasions Josephs publicly voiced his
disgust at the oppressive nature of the Russian government—describing
from the platform at one mass meeting the “wretched conditions of the
Working Class in Russia.” “Doloi S Russki Samoderszavie!” (Down With
Russian Tyranny!) also featured Josephs as a main speaker, where he
“spoke with force and earnestness on the evening’s theme… explaining
something of the revolutionary propaganda, and describing some of the
scenes of horror that incited the revolters to count no odds in their
struggle for freedom.”
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