| 词条 | Alfred M. Wall |
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Alfred Mervyn Wall (1 November 1889[1] – 2 October 1957) was a British trade unionist and political activist. Born in East Hamlet, Shropshire,[2] Wall moved to London to work as a compositor,[3][4] and was a member of the British Socialist Party (BSP). This affiliated to the Labour Party after World War I, and Wall was unexpectedly elected to Wandsworth Metropolitan Borough Council for Clapham North in 1918. In this role, he frequently clashed with the local socialist preacher and pioneer druid George Watson Macgregor Reid.[5] He was also sympathetic to anarchism, and chaired the Frank Kitz Appeal Committee.[6] 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 London Society of Compositors at the Labour Party conference in 1925, and eventually defected to the party, although he was still a communist in 1927, when he became a joint secretary of the "Hands Off China" campaign.[9] In 1926, he was elected as Secretary of the London Trades Council.[10] While holding this position, he spent much of his time promoting a trade union for actors, based on a closed shop principle. This became Equity, and he was elected as its first secretary.[11][12] Later in the 1930s, he also served as a vice-president of the Spanish Medical Aid Committee,[13] 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] References1. ^1939 England and Wales Register {{s-start}}{{s-npo|union}}{{succession box|title=Secretary of the London Trades Council|years=1926–1938|before=Duncan Carmichael|after=Robert Willis}}{{succession box|title=General Secretary of Equity|years=1930–1934|before=New position|after=Geoffrey Robinson}}{{succession box|title=General Secretary of the London Society of Compositors|years=1938–1945|before=Thomas Naylor|after=Robert Willis}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Wall, Alfred M}}2. ^1901 England Census 3. ^Trades Union Congress, Annual Report of the 1958 Trades Union Congress, p.314 4. ^1 Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.13 5. ^Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.15 6. ^Freedom, vols.29-38, p.30 7. ^Graham Stevenson, "Wall Alfred", Compendium of Communist Biography 8. ^Arthur Peacock, Yours fraternally, p.14 9. ^Gleanings and Memoranda, Vol. 65, p.298 10. ^The Labour Magazine, Vol.11, p.240 11. ^Report of Annual Trades Union Congress (1973), p.434 12. ^Alan Clinton, The trade union rank and file: trades councils in Britain, 1900-40, p.173 13. ^"Aid to Spain", Modern Records Centre, Warwick University 14. ^V. L. Allen, Power in Trade Unions: A Study of Their Organization in Great Britain, p.291 15. ^A. W. Brian Simpson, In the highest degree odious, p.187 16. ^F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins, British Intelligence in the Second World War, p.65 17. ^World's Press News and Advertisers' Review, Vols.33-34, p.24 9 : 1889 births|1957 deaths|British Socialist Party members|Communist Party of Great Britain councillors|Councillors in Greater London|Labour Party (UK) councillors|Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates|General Secretaries of the London Typographical Association|General Secretaries of Equity (trade union) |
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