[2] Sims prioritised organisation, and quickly embarked on a sixty-day tour of the UK to strengthen existing branches and form new ones.
Results were mixed; although he visited several cities where there was no interest, new branches were founded in Norwich, Bradford, Liverpool and Birmingham, and he impressed existing members.
Sims went to the town to try to resolve the dispute; unable to do so, he made the strike official and achieved victory.
[4] The executive arranged an audit, which revealed that Sims had embezzled more than £100 of union money; he eventually admitted this, offering as an explanation only that his salary was insufficient.
In 1903, he emigrated to the United States, where his brother was living; he dissolved the Wiremen's Union and asked the ETU for a reference, although there is no record of one being provided.