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Jones Jack (Wales)

Jack Jones Not to be confused with his namesake, the leader of the T&G, Jack Jones was briefly a Communist in the Welsh mining valleys and always a chameleon type figure in the political sphere […]

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Owen Jack

Jack Owen Jack Owen was born in 1887 and started work, aged 14. He would later write that: “since a kid of 14 years of age, when I put on dungarees and proudly displayed a […]

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Frazer Jack

Jack Frazer   John Norman Frazer was a Communist electrician, who joined the Communist Party in 1939.   He became the Secretary of the Party’s electrical advisory in the 1940-50s, taking over from Jack Hendy […]

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Allanson Jack

Jack Allanson   The first Communist President of the National Union of Students.   Jack Turner Allanson was born on December 30th 1919, near to Bury. Having won a scholarship to Bury Grammar School, this […]

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Amos Jack

Jack Amos Jack Amos led a life that confounded media images of Communist trade unionists as dour, single-minded party automatons. His quietly spoken, self-effacing demeanour masked a wickedly dry sense of humour and his post-meeting […]

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Keating Jack

  Jack Keating by Tommy Mooney: John Francis Keating was born on 26th October 1899 in Ballyragget,   Co.Kilkenny, Ireland. He joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914 and succumbed, with thousands of other young Irishmen, to […]

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Edwards Jack

Jack Edwards   Born in Liverpool on 3 January 1914 into a family of socialists, Jack worked as a motor mechanic after leaving school and, as a member of the Young Communist League, was on […]

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Jack John

John Jack John Jack moved to Tumble from Llanfyrnach to work in the pits, beginning as a labourer.   He was already much influenced politically by involvement in trade unionism when he was conscripted in World […]

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Killen Jack

Jack Killen A long-term Bradford Communist and activist in the TGWU bus workers branch. Under the rule which became operative in 1950, he was debarred as a member of the Communist Party from holding office […]