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Frank Jackson, 1887-1979, Communist Party and building trades activist, Communist Party librarian |
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CP/IND/MISC/13/4: Notes and articles, mainly historical; subjects include Marx and Engels, Communist Party history, Peterloo, working-class press, Chartism, the struggle for the vote, etc., c1930s-1960s. CP/IND/MISC/13/5: Tottenham Trades Council minutes and related papers, 1961. CP/IND/MISC/14/1: Correspondence and papers regarding the New Builders Leader including a TS historical account of the NBL, 1936-1938. CP/IND/MISC/14/2: TS report of the Plumbers Union enquiry into Communist activities in the Manchester No. 2 lodge of the union, 12.11.52. CP/IND/MISC/14/3: TS report on CP building cell at Exeter House, Putney Heath, London (incomplete), 1935. CP/IND/MISC/14/4: TS extracts from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, Sheffield No. 12 branch minutes, 1915-20. CP/IND/MISC/14/5: Letter from F. Wolstoncroft, general secretary, Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers to ASW branch secretary, F.C. Raven, dismissing Jackson's appeal against expulsion; with covering letter from Raven to FJ, 1935. CP/IND/MISC/14/6: MS transcript by FJ of 'Dockers Beware' article by Harry Pollitt from Workers Dreadnought 10.5.19 with note to FJ from Pollitt, 23.8.57. CP/IND/MISC/14/7: TS report of the 1st British Brigade working on Bratsvo-Jedinstvo Autostade, Yugoslavia; by FJ, brigade leader, 1948. CP/IND/MISC/14/8: Miscellaneous building trades union printed materials including TS of 'A Building Trades Confederation' by George Hicks 1925; evidence to Working Party on Building submitted by CP, December 1948; illustrated brochure to mark the opening of the new offices of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers, June 1935. CP/IND/MISC/14/9: CP memo regarding the proposed repeal of Clause 5 of the Trades Disputes Act proscribing political activities of civil servants, c1943. CP/IND/MISC/14/10: Card of greetings on retirement; also correspondence with Gordron McLennan, 1970-1979. |