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Ludmer, Maurice
Maurice Ludmer Ludmer was born in Manchester in 1926 to a Jewish family, his father being a Salford hairdresser and his mother a teacher of Hebrew. The family moved to Balsall Heath, Birmingham in 1939, when […]
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McFadden, Berit
Berit McFadden, who originally came from Schorndorf in southern Germany (pictured), died on 18 April 1997, aged 41, from a rare form of lung cancer. This was 6 weeks after diagnosis and 11 weeks after […]
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Gleason, Fred
Fred Gleason Fred Gleason was born in Liverpool and lived in the city his whole life, among other things, working as a painter and decorator for the city council. He proudly represented his co-workers as a […]
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Llewellyn, Fred Cllr
Fred Llewelyn Llewellyn joined the Communist Party in 1927 and was first elected as a Communist county councillor to represent the Nantymoel area, near Bridgend, on Glamorgan County Council in April 1932. Although receiving 732 […]
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Westwood, Jim Councillor
At the age of 23, he was already a President of his branch of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and a member of its District Committee. Westwood was elected a Labour councillor on Rowley Regis Urban […]
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O’Connell, Harry
Harry E O’Connell The Guyanese ship’s carpenter who organised the black seafarers of Cardiff and Liverpool in the 1930s, reputedly up to 10,000 of them, migrated to Britain in 1910. He founded the Cardiff Coloured […]
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Thompson, Fred
Fred Thompson was born just that – Fred – and was known even to the media of his day as that. The only time he was erroneously called Frederick was when the constabulary charged him. […]
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Carritt Michael
Michael John Carritt was born on 3rd January 1906, the eldest son of four brothers and two girls, the brother of Gabriel Carritt (see separate entry). Coming from an academic background, he was educated locally in […]
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Alley, Surat
Surat Alley was the British representative of the All-India Seamen’s Federation (AISF), who led a wave of strikes in 1939 and 1940 in British ports of Indian seafarers, when, despite repeated jailings, mass desertions by […]
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Steer, Bernie
Bernie Steer A measure of how sensitive were docks strikes is shown by the revelations that came when cabinet papers covering 1970 were released under the 30-year rule at the start of 2001. It seems […]