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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 […]

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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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Sack Joe

Joe Sack   Joseph Sack was born in 1921, the youngest of six children of a Ukrainian Jewish couple who had come to England in 1901. The family home was close to White Hart Lane […]

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Scott Joe

Joe Scott Scott was a member of the Central Committee elected at the Eleventh Party Congress in December 1929. He had become a significant figure in the five-year old National Minority Movement, which campaigned for […]

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McMillan Joe

Joseph D McMillan Joe McMillan was born in a poor family in the East End of Glasgow on the 2nd of December 1898. By 1911, he was working as a van-boy. He fought in WW1, […]

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Whelan Joe

Joe Whelan Joe was born on 1st March 1925, in Dublin, to a family that was as involved in the independence struggle as any. He left Ireland at the age of 15 to join the […]