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Performance TitleLansbury's Labour Weekly - Great United Demonstration
Performance Date7 March 1926
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time18:45
Main PerformersGeorge Lansbury (Presiding),
A A Purcell,
George Hicks,
William Paul,
Mrs Pollitt,
T Dafen Williams,
W H Hutchinson,
John Wheatley,
J F Horrabin,
Ellen Wilkinson,
James Maxton,
Neil MacLean
W T A Foot
Rev. H Dunnico - speakers,
Hilda Sax - piano
ChoirsSpelthorne Labour Choir
ConductorsMr Fawcett
Set ListOpening Song: 'The March of the Workers',
Piano Soli: 'Gavotte', Gluck-Brahms,
'Gopak', Moussorgski,
'The Red Flag',
'March-Song of the Red Army',
'The International'
Performance NotesA banner was hung from a rope in front of the organ.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1926/22)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1926/22Great United Demonstration, organised by 'Lansbury's Labour Weekly'7 March 1926
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Exos_Duhip_VLansbury's Labour Weekly - Great United Demonstration1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/163Lansbury; George (1859-1940); British Labour politician
DS/UK/3236Purcell; Albert Arthur (1872-1935); British trade unionist, Labour politician
DS/UK/3237Hicks; George (1879-1954); British trades unionist, Labour politician
DS/UK/3238Paul; William 'Bill' (1884-1958); British socialist politician
DS/UK/3239Wheatley; John (1869-1930); Scottish socialist politician
DS/UK/3240Williams; Thomas Dafen (fl 1917-1926); Welsh socialist
DS/UK/3241Horrabin; James Francis 'Frank' (1884-1962); English socialist, (sometime Communist), radical writer and cartoonist
DS/UK/2996Wilkinson; Ellen (1891-1947); British politician
DS/UK/3242Maxton; James (1885-1946); Scottish socialist politician, leader of the Independent Labour Party
DS/UK/3243MacLean; Neil (1875-1953); Scottish socialist, Independent Labour Party member (later a Labour Party Member of Parliament)
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