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Sloan Todd

Todd Sloan Born around 1876, Todd Sloan was a London docker’s leader, who was arrested during the 1926 General Strike. During the early 1930s, he was much involved in the NUWM and unemployed campaigning in […]

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Smith Cyril

Cyril Smith Smith had moved to Hayes, in West Middlesex, in 1957, and worked as a wood machinist for London Transport.  He joined the Communist Party in 1960, standing as a Communist candidate for the […]

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Smith Reggie

Reggie Smith Reginald Donald Smith, always `Reggie’, was a BBC producer of such talent that he is frequently refered to as “legendary”. He was also married to the novelist, Olivia Manning. He was a card-carrying […]

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Solomans Dave

Dave Solomons Dave Solomons was a tele­communications electrical engineering inspector and had joined the Electricians Trade Union around 1942.   After acting as secretary of the union’s Radio No. 4 branch from 1946 to 1948, […]

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Stevens Wally

Wally Stevens Walter C Stevens was born of working class parents in Woolwich in 1904, the oldest of five sons. He first began work at the age of 10, after school hours because his father, a labourer, […]

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Swain Arthur

Arthur Swain Born in 1882 or 1883, Arthur Edward Swain was one of six brothers, all engineering workers. They were born and brought up in the working class districts of old Birmingham. Arthur was a foundation member […]