Alfred M. Wall
Alfred Mervyn Wall (1 November 1889 – 2 October 1957) was a British
Born in
Wall represented the BSP's Clapham branch at the meeting which founded the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), and subsequently sat as a Communist councillor.[4][7] Initially one of the communist's main speakers in London, he stood as a joint Communist Party-Labour Party candidate in Streatham at the 1924 general election, taking 13.8% of the vote.[8]
Wall represented the
In 1938, Wall was elected as General Secretary of the London Society of Compositors, and stood down from the London Trades Council.[14] During World War II, he served on the National Arbitration Union,[15] and on Lord Swinton's Security Executive.[16]
Wall retired from his union posts in 1945, but worked for a while as the secretary and welfare officer of C. and E. Layton.[17]
References
- ^ 1901 England Census
- 1939 England and Wales Register
- ^ Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1958 Trades Union Congress, p.314
- ^ a b Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.13
- ^ Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.15
- ^ Freedom, vols.29-38, p.30
- ^ Graham Stevenson, "Wall Alfred", Compendium of Communist Biography
- ^ Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.14
- ^ Gleanings and Memoranda, Vol. 65, p.298
- ^ The Labour Magazine, Vol.11, p.240
- ^ Report of Annual Trades Union Congress (1973), p.434
- ^ Alan Clinton, The trade union rank and file: trades councils in Britain, 1900-40, p.173
- Warwick University
- ^ V. L. Allen, Power in Trade Unions: A Study of Their Organization in Great Britain, p.291
- ^ A. W. Brian Simpson, In the highest degree odious, p.187
- ^ F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins, British Intelligence in the Second World War, p.65
- ^ World's Press News and Advertisers' Review, Vols.33-34, p.24