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Oldershaw Tom
Tom Oldershaw A carpenter by trade Oldershaw was a member of the Battersea Number 2 branch of the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers. He seconded a motion to the local Trades Council to establish an Aid to Spain committee […]
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Quelch Tom
Tom Quelch Tom Quelch was the son of the rather more famous early socialist Harry (Henry) Quelch who died in 1913 (pictured below) and was also nephew of Alonzo Quelch, a noted socialist in the Reading […]
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Tom Thomas Herbert Beverley Thomas (known to everyone as Tom Thomas) was born in Dalston, Hackney, East London in June 1902. He was educated at an London County Council School and, aged 14, started […]
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Dingley Tom
Tom Dingley Dingley was a leader of Coventry Socialist Labour Party (SLP) before the formation of the Communist Party, which he joined from the start in 1920. He had syndicalist leanings and was a confidante […]
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Picton Tom
Tom Picton Thomas Issac Picton was born in 1895 and became a miner in Treherbert, Rhonnda Fawr, South Wales. He was one-time amateur middle weight boxing champion of Wales. During the 1914-18 […]
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Coleman Tom
Tom Coleman In 1935, Tom Coleman of Dalefield Avenue, Normanton, was fined £1:13s at the West Riding Police Court at Wakefield for harbouring an illicit still. The item made the news since he […]
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Aisbitt Tom
Tom Aisbitt Thomas Aisbitt was a veteran of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Communist Party. He was a close friend of Dave Atkinson (see separate entry), a fellow Communist.Tom was a prominent member of the woodworkers union. In […]
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