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Len White (trade Unionist)
Leonard Charles White (12 November 1897''1939 England and Wales Register'' – 11 May 1955) was a British trade union leader. White served as deputy general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association (CSCA) for some years, and was in this role in 1939 when he additionally became the first general secretary of the Civil Service Alliance. In 1942, he became general secretary of the CSCA after his predecessor, William Brown, was elected to Parliament."Mr L. C. White", ''Manchester Guardian'', 12 May 1955 White was known as a communist sympathiser, and although he never joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, he served on the editorial board of the ''Daily Worker'' from 1946.Jonathan Schneer, ''Labour's Conscience: The Labour Left, 1945-51'', pp.136-138 Brown was highly critical of this, and campaigned for the CSCA to ban communists from holding office. This was not successful, and White became known as a skillful and impartial leader. In 1954, he was offered ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union
A trade union (labor union in American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers intent on "maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment", ch. I such as attaining better wages and benefits (such as holiday, health care, and retirement), improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting the integrity of their trade through the increased bargaining power wielded by solidarity among workers. Trade unions typically fund their head office and legal team functions through regularly imposed fees called ''union dues''. The delegate staff of the trade union representation in the workforce are usually made up of workplace volunteers who are often appointed by members in democratic elections. The trade union, through an elected leadership and bargaining committee, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Service Clerical Association
The Civil and Public Services Association (CPSA) was a trade union in the United Kingdom, representing civil servants. History The union was founded in 1921, when the Civil Service Clerical Union and the Clerical Officers' Association merged to form the Civil Service Clerical Association (CSCA). It affiliated with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labour Party and had around 16,000 members. Its Dublin branch left the following year, to form the Civil and Public Services Union. Following the 1926 United Kingdom general strike, the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act 1927 was passed, requiring government employees to disaffiliate from political parties and trades union confederations, compelling the union to leave the Labour Party and the TUC. It rejoined the TUC in 1946. In 1969, the union renamed itself the Civil and Public Services Association. In 1973, the Ministry of Labour Staff Association joined the CPSA, then the Court Officers Association joined in 1974. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Civil Service Alliance
The Civil Service Alliance was a trade union federation bringing together civil servants in the United Kingdom. Predecessors The organisation's origins lay in the Civil Service Federation, established by nine unions in 1911. By the following year, it represented 102,000 civil servants. It focused on giving evidence to government commissions and discussing the possibility of political action. The unions representing clerical workers objected to this focus, and in 1916 all except the post office clerks' unions left the federation. In 1917, the Assistant Clerks' Association, Civil Service Typists' Association, Federation of Women Civil Servants and Second Division Clerks' Association established a new Civil Service Alliance. The Association of Superintendents and Deputy Superintendents of the Board of Trade Mercantile Marine Offices, Association of Tax Clerks and Boy Clerks' Association also joined before the end of the year, and by 1920 the alliance had 28 full members, 7 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Brown (trade Unionist)
William Brown may refer to: Academics *William Brown (industrial relations expert) (1945–2019), British academic, Master of Darwin College, Cambridge *William Brown (plant pathologist) (1888–1975), British mycologist and plant pathologist *William Brown (psychologist) (1881–1952), British psychologist * William Fuller Brown Jr. (1904–1983), American physicist * W. G. Brown, Canadian mathematician * William Harvey Brown (1862–1913), American naturalist *William Jethro Brown (1868–1930), Australian jurist and professor of law * William L. Brown (geneticist) (1913–1991), American geneticist *W. Norman Brown (1892–1975), American Indologist and Sanskritist *William Yancey Brown (born 1948), American zoologist and attorney Sportspeople Association football *William Brown (footballer, born 1865), English footballer *William Brown (footballer, born 1874) (1874–1940), English footballer and cricketer *William Brown (footballer, born 1876), Scottish footballer *William Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main newspr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communist Party Of Great Britain
The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was the largest communist organisation in Britain and was founded in 1920 through a merger of several smaller Marxist groups. Many miners joined the CPGB in the 1926 general strike. In 1930, the CPGB founded the ''Daily Worker'' (renamed the ''Morning Star'' in 1966). In 1936, members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. In the Spanish Civil War the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the British Battalion of the International Brigades, which party activist Bill Alexander commanded. In World War II, the CPGB mirrored the Soviet position, opposing or supporting the war in line with the involvement of the USSR. By the end of World War II, CPGB membership had nearly tripled and the party reached the height of its popularity. Many key CPGB members became leaders of Britain's trade union movement, including most notably Jessie Eden, Abraham Lazarus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Worker (UK)
The ''Morning Star'' is a left-wing British daily newspaper with a focus on social, political and trade union issues. Originally founded in 1930 as the ''Daily Worker'' by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), ownership was transferred from the CPGB to an independent readers' co-operative in 1945. The paper was then renamed and reinvented as the ''Morning Star'' in 1966. The paper describes its editorial stance as in line with ''Britain's Road to Socialism'', the programme of the Communist Party of Britain. During the Cold War, the paper gave a platform to whistleblowers exposing numerous war crimes and atrocities, including publishing proof that the British military were allowing Dayak auxiliaries to headhunt suspected MNLA guerrillas in the Malayan Emergency, publishing evidence of the use of biological weapons by the United States during the Korean War, and revealing the existence of mass graves of civilians killed by the Government of South Korea, South Kore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Schneer
Jonathan Schneer (born August 9, 1948) is an American historian of modern Britain whose work ranges over labor, political, social, cultural, and diplomatic subjects. He is an emeritus professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition to writing numerous scholarly and popular books, he has written for such publications as ''The Washington Post'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''Foreign Policy''. His work has been translated into German, Chinese, and Turkish. He has appeared often on American, Canadian, and British media. He has lectured in six countries. Early life and education Jonathan Schneer was born on August 9, 1948 in New York City. His father, Richard Schneer (1919–2004), was a dentist with a practice in New York City, who retired to Berkshire County in northwestern Massachusetts, where he devoted himself to progressive causes. His mother, Sophie Solomonoff Schneer (1920–2009), was a modern dancer in New York City, who becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitley Council
Whitley may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom *Whitley, Berkshire, a suburb of Reading *Whitley, Cheshire, a village near Warrington *Whitley, Coventry, a suburb of Coventry, West Midlands *Whitley, Essex, near Birdbrook * Whitley, Wigan, Greater Manchester, a location * Whitley, North Yorkshire, a village * Whitley, South Yorkshire, a location *Whitley, Wiltshire, a village *Whitley Bay, a town in Tyne and Wear, known as Whitley until the 19th century * Whitley Lower and Whitley Upper, West Yorkshire ;United States *Whitley City, Kentucky *Whitley County, Indiana *Whitley County, Kentucky *Whitley Township, Moultrie County, Illinois In the military * Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, a British bomber of the Second World War * , a British destroyer in commission in the Royal Navy from 1918 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1940 Schools *Whitley Secondary School, Bishan, Singapore *Whitley Abbey Community School, Coventry, England *Whitley College, University of Melbourne, Australia People * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Green (trade Unionist)
George Frederick Green (3 August 1908 – 7 October 1989) was a British trade union leader. Green was born in London Borough of Camden to George James Green and Florence Meta Emily Green. In the 1940s, Green the leading figure in the Socialist Vanguard Group, an organisation linked with the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund, and also with the Society for the Furtherance of Critical Philosophy of Leonard Nelson.Peter Barberis et al, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations'', p.293 By the late 1940s, the Vanguard Group was best known for its anti-communism, and it was influential on the right-wing of the Labour Party, publishing ''Socialist Commentary''. Green served for some years as the deputy general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association (CSCA). In 1955, the union's general secretary, Len White, died suddenly, and Green was appointed as his successor. As leader, he was known for his command of the complex pay scheme for civil ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1897 Births
Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin. * January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia. * January 8 – Lady Flora Shaw, future wife of Governor General Lord Lugard, officially proposes the name "Nigeria" in a newspaper contest, to be given to the British Niger Coast Protectorate. * January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal ''Engineering'', the word ''computer'' is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. * January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction. * January 31 – The Czechoslovak Trade Union Association is f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
