Kane – Graham Stevenson

Kane Johnny Cllr

September 23, 2010 admin 0

Councillor Johnny Kane Johnny Kane was a Communist County councillor for Renton, in the Vale of Leven, from the 1940s until his death in the late 1950s. Described by local history sources as “one […]

No wonder we were all rebels: Jock Kane – oral history

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“No wonder we were all rebels- an oral history” by Jock Kane, with Betty Kane The posthumous autobiography of a great Yorkshire miners’ leader, born in Scotland of Irish parents. Published, with the minimum […]

Kane Mick

April 4, 2010 admin 0

Mick Kane Kane was the brother of Jock Kane and uncle to Bridget Jones (see separate entries), and he was also a Communist and a miners’ leader. Pic: Mick Kane is in the centre of […]

Kane Jock

September 19, 2008 admin 0

Jock Kane John Kane first worked in the pits at Fouldshields colliery in West Lothianfrom the age of 14 in 1921. At the age of 15, he joined the Communist Party, an allegiance he was […]