SPGB Meetings (1938)

Party News from the July 1938 issue of the Socialist Standard

Blogger's Notes:

The July 21st 1938 Lewisham Branch meeting, "Breakaway Unions—For or Against" is an interesting one. Frank Snelling and Bill Waters were both bus workers, and were both involved in rank and file movements in their union. Snelling ended up leading a breakaway union. More details about the bus workers, their rank and file movement and background on Frank Snelling are available at the following links:

• Aug 1938: 'The Busmen's Problem: New Unions or old'
• Oct 1946: 'Mr. Thurtle misfires'
• Apr 1995: Review of Ken Fuller's Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s