Mr Edmondson

Family and school. First job for a haulage contractor in an office, next as an apprentice in a concrete machinery company. Working conditions, types of machines. Political activities as a member of the Independent Labour Party, shop steward. John Henderson, one of the leaders of the national unemployed workers movement in Gateshead. Spanish civil war, humanitarian work done for Spanish children sent to Tyneside. Badge worn by the ILP members. Amalgamated engineering union. Plans of ILP to run a blockade on a ship to go to Spain during the civil war, eventually done by British ship owners, how this turned out. Armament work in factories during world war two. Political campaigns in the 1950s. Women's rights as engineers, campaigning for equality. Campaigns against South African apartheid system

Location: Gateshead
County: Tyne and Wear
AUD1999-9

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