Published 2005
“…Although a small minority among the 2500-strong workforce at the Midland Railway Workshops in the 1950s, the Communists were an active group, whose physical focal point was a section of the Machine Shop in Block 3, known as 'Red Square', where Jack
Marks, a fitter and
turner who was an active CPA member, operated a lathe.This paper argues that the activities of
Marks and fellow CPA members went far beyond political proselytising and that herein lay their success as union activists. …”
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