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Cowley Joe
Joe Cowley Joe Cowley, along with his close comrade Ted Dickens, were long-standing Communist dockers, active in the community of London’s east end as well as in the port of London. In the run up […]
Month: February 2010
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Simmonds Joe
Joe Simmonds Joe Simmonds was a woodworker who moved to Southampton from Sunderland in 1936, searching for work. He started at the Scott Paine yard in Hythe working on motor torpedo boats but was moved […]
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Crighton Maurice
Maurice Crighton Maurice Crighton was born in 1928 in Lambeth, where his father worked at the Waterloo headquarters of the Southern Railway. The family moved to Hersham, and after passing the 11-plus exam, Maurice attended […]
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Stallard Trevor
Trevor Stallard Stallard was the leader of the Southampton dockers in the 1950s and 1960s and a member of the TGWU and a member of the Communist Party, along with other leading dockers at Southampton […]
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Corbett Geoffrey
Geoffrey Corbett & Jane Vowles Corbett was a rather famous conductor and musical orchestrator as well as being a life-long Communist from the early 1930s. He conducted the Vic Wells Opera Company at the Old […]
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Smith Harold
Harold Smith Harold Smith was a leader of the seamen’s strike of 1925, a member of the Amalgamated Marine Workers’ Union (not TUC affiliated), who afterwards found himself blacklisted in most ports. Through family connections […]
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Bone Edith
Edith Bone Edith Bone was born Edit Hajós in 1889 in Hungary. A medical doctor by training, she married Béla Balázs in 1913. From 1923 to 1933 she lived in Berlin. A year after that, […]
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Bailey Jack
Jack Bailey The Communist Party’s East London Area Daily Worker organiser in the early 1960s, Bailey reported in the Party press in 1961 that the Daily Worker “pitch is part of the Hackney scene. Manned […]