Jack Dunman; Len Powell; Edward Richard (Ernest) Pountney; Robert (Bob) Stewart - Communist Party of Great Britain archive from Microform Academic Publishers

JACK DUNMAN; LEN POWELL; EDWARD RICHARD (ERNEST) POUNTNEY; ROBERT (BOB) STEWART

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Jack Dunman; Len Powell; Edward Richard (Ernest) Pountney; Robert (Bob) Stewart

Further notes and correspondence primarily relating to agriculture from Jack Dunmnan. Also a collection of seven letters from W. G. Shepherd to Len Powell from Winchester prison, 1931-1933. The papers of Ernest Pountney chart the fortunes of the CPGB's primary media organ, the Daily Worker, including financial records, committee minutes, bankruptcy proceedings in 1940, followed by its subsequent ban and re-launch, 1941-1942.

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Jack Dunman, 1911-1972, CP agricultural organiser and writer on agricultural questions

CP/IND/MISC/8/2: Notes, drafts and correspondence re agricultural writings and lectures including studies of agriculture in Eastern Europe and agricultural co-operatives in Britain, c1968-1971. CP/IND/MISC/8/3: Correspondence regarding his book, Agriculture, Capitalist and Socialist (Lawrence & Wishart, 1975). Correspondents include Brian Pollitt, R.W. Davies, Andrew Rothstein, Maurice Dobb, Maurice Cornforth and Lawrence & Wishart, 1970-1972.

Len Powell, Communist industrial activist and organiser

CP/IND/MISC/8/4: Letters (7) from W.G. Shepherd from Winchester prison. These mainly relate to St Pancras local CPGB activities during the 1931 general election campaign with one letter from Gore Graham to the local party committee regarding agit-prop activities and recent comradely differences, 1931-1933.

Edward Richard (Ernest) Pountney, b1881, Communist activist and proprietor of Daily Worker

CP/IND/MISC/8/5: TS autobiography dated 15.5.50, with copy. CP/IND/MISC/8/6: International Workers Relief for Soviet Russia share certificates; renewal certificates; application form and pamphlets regarding the First Workers Loan to Soviet Russia, 1923-1932. CP/IND/MISC/8/7: Daily Worker financial records and related papers including business committee minutes, 5.1.38; budgets 1938, 1940; accounts; wage sheets. CP/IND/MISC/8/8: Papers re bankruptcy proceedings as proprietor of Daily Worker after loss of Daily Worker case, 1940. CP/IND/MISC/8/9: Papers regarding the Daily Worker including Harry Pollitt's TS article, Five Years of the Daily Worker; Kingston branch on the selling of the paper at weekends; deeds, agreements, registration forms and papers regarding broadsheets during the wartime ban on the Worker, c1935-1960. CP/IND/MISC/9/1: Papers regarding the Daily Worker circulation and distribution including distribution details and copy publishers sheets, December 1932, circulation figures, 1939-1940, letter and statement regarding earlier circulations, 1972. CP/IND/MISC/9/2: Papers re Daily Worker ban and re-launch including correspondence and copy correspondence of DW Defence League, Fighting Fund, Keable Press, etc. with George Isaacs, NATSOPA; J. Benson, Iron and Steel Trades Confederation; H.G. Wells; Adrian Brunel, etc.; Peoples Press Fighting Fund payments, 1942; TS statement, 'Post-war publication of the Daily Worker and proposed purchase', 1942-1945. CP/IND/MISC/9/3: Cuttings and memorabilia regarding Tom Mann, George Bernard Shaw, Harry Pollitt including postcards from Shaw, 1939-40 (photocopies only), letters to EP from Tom Mann and Shapurji Saklatvala; letter to Mann from Henri Barbusse 1934; photographs. CP/IND/MISC/9/4: May Day papers including printed programmes; First of May Celebration Committee minutes, 22.1.28; EP's TS notes for May Day pamphlet, 1927. CP/IND/MISC/9/5: Papers regarding the National Arbitration Tribunal case ('the Howards case') between Keable Press, the Daily Worker's proprietors, and NATSOPA members employed by the paper, 1942. CP/IND/MISC/9/6: Miscellaneous memorabilia and ephemera including EP's printed election leaflets, 1925 and 1950s; letters from Pat Sloan with copy of Russia Today Newsletter, 1956; Russian Revolution 20th anniversary dinner menu, 1937; letters (2) to John Partington and unnamed correspondent of 'Orator' Henry Hunt, 1831-32; cuttings; letter from Harry Pollitt, 1943. CP/IND/MISC/9/7: Draft National Minority Movement pamphlet (1928) on shop workers (never published) with explanatory note by EP, 1967.

Robert (Bob) Stewart, 1877-1971, Communist Party leader

CP/IND/MISC/9/8: Scrapbook received on his 75th birthday from H. Livingstone with cartoons of Stewart from the Edwardian period, many relating to prohibitionist questions, by Tom Livingstone, Dundee, 1952. CP/IND/MISC/9/9: Miscellaneous papers including certificate of discharge from forces, 1919; address book; letters from Bob Bonnar 1964, R. Palme Dutt, 1966, Jack Peterson, 1967.

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