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Performance TitleLansbury's Labour Weekly - Hail the Russian Revolution! Ninth Anniversary
Performance Date7 November 1926
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersMr George Lansbury MP (Presiding),
C P Trevelyan MP,
A A Purcell MP,
Harry Pollitt,
J F Horrabin,
Arthur Horner,
Dr Marion Phillips,
Ald. Ben Turner JP - speakers,
Rufus John - vocal
Orchestra or BandNine Mile Point Colliery Band
ChoirsAberdare Miners' Choir
ConductorsMr E Hardiman
Set ListMarch: 'Lodestar' (Nine Mile Point Colliery Band),
Choir: 'The Soldiers' Chorus' from Faust, Gounod (Aberdare Miners' Choir),
Overture: 'Saxonhurst' (Nine Mile Point Colliery Band),
Choir: 'Row, Boatmen, Row', Geibel (Aberdare Miners' Choir),
'The Red Flag'
'England, Arise' (Nine Mile Point Colliery Band),
'On the Sea' (Aberdare Miners' Choir),
'The International'
Performance NotesThe demonstration held by the Labour Party was to demand peace and trade with Russia, and to appeal for help for the coal miners.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1926/78)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1926/78Hail the Russian Revolution, 9th Anniversary7 November 1926
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OodaxoigadipoomLansbury's Labour Weekly - Hail the Russian Revolution! Ninth Anniversary1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3397Trevelyan; Sir; Charles Philips (1870-1958); 3rd Baronet Wallington; British Liberal, and later Labour, politician and landowner
DS/UK/3236Purcell; Albert Arthur (1872-1935); British trade unionist, Labour politician
DS/UK/3398Pollitt; Harry (1890-1960); British head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain
DS/UK/3241Horrabin; James Francis 'Frank' (1884-1962); English socialist, (sometime Communist), radical writer and cartoonist
DS/UK/3399Horner; Arthur Lewis (5 April 1894-4 September 1968); Welsh trade union leader, Communist politician
DS/UK/2775Phillips; Marion (1881-1932); Dr.; British Labour Party politician, leader of the Women's Labour League
DS/UK/2868Turner; Sir; Ben (1863-1942); English trade unionist, Labour politician
DS/UK/3401John; Rufus (fl 1926); British singer
DS/UK/163Lansbury; George (1859-1940); British Labour politician
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