[2] However he dissented from the majority of the Committee in that he supported the proposal for the Society to unite with the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist League.
In 1897 he wrote The German Menace and its English Apologists and Marching Backwards in reply to the arguments of free trade politicians.
[5] In 1903 the journal Commercial Intelligence commissioned Williams and Harold Cox to write a "fiscal duel" on free trade.
[6] In later life Williams abandoned socialism, becoming a liberal individualist and chairman of The Freedom Association and a member of the executive of the Anti-Socialist Union.
However with the Great Depression causing mass unemployment, Williams in 1930 wrote an unpublished manuscript advocating "Socialism without the state".