Record

Performance TitleDaily Worker Sixteenth Birthday Festival
Performance Date6 January 1946
Performance DaySunday
Main PerformersColin Wells,
Harry Pollitt,
Dean of Canterbury,
William Rust,
Alan Hutt,
Jack Forbes,
Les Smith,
J B Priestley,
Prof. J B S Haldane,
Will Griffiths,
Arthur Horner - speakers
Secondary PerformersWornington Road Gymnastic Club
Orchestra or BandCo-operative Children's Percussion Band
ChoirsWorkers Music Association,
Ashford Labour Choir,
Abertillery Unity Male Voice Choir,
Oxford Welsh Glee Singers,
Tottenham And Edmonton Co-op. Choir,
Edgware Co-op. Choir,
Battersea and Clapham Co-op. Choir,
East Ham Co-op. Choir,
Watford Co-op. Choir,
Elm Park Co-op. Choir,
Welling and Bexley Heath Co-op. Choir,
Central Co-op. Choir,
Southend Co-op. Choir,
Leetham Co-op. Choir,
Bournemouth Labour Male Voice Choir,
WMA Singers,
Miners Choir
ConductorsAllan Bush
Set List'Hearts of Oak' (Choir and Band),
'March of Delegates' (International Band)
'Cwm Rhondda' (Miners Choir),
'Miner's Song' (Miners Choir),
'Cutty Wren' (Full Choir),
'Digger's Song' (Full Choir),
'Chartist Song' (Full Choir),
'People of England' (Full Choir),
'Commoners of England' (Full Choir),
'Scots Wha Hae' (Full Choir),
'Men of Harlech' (Full Choir),
'Wearing of The Green' (Full Choir)
Performance NotesThe Daily Worker was a left-wing British daily newspaper founded in 1930 by the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). When they held their first event at the Royal Albert Hall in 1946 their ownership had been transferred from the CPGB to an independent readers' co-operative the previous year. In 1966 the paper was renamed and reinvented as the Morning Star and remains both the largest and longest-running socialist newspaper in Britain.

The Miners Choir listed is likely to have been the Maesteg Gleemen Miners Choir from South Wales, sometimes also known as the Coegnant Male Voice Choir.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1946/5)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1946/5Daily Worker sixteenth birthday Festival6 January 1946
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OpavavomifowlDaily Worker Sixteenth Birthday Festival1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/3398Pollitt; Harry (1890-1960); British head of the trade union department of the Communist Party of Great Britain
DS/UK/6705Rust; William Charles (1903-1949); British newspaper editor, communist activist
DS/UK/6706Priestley; John Boynton (1894-1984); English novelist, playwright, broadcaster
DS/UK/3478Haldane; 'JBS' John Burdon Sanderson (1892-1964); British-born geneticist, Marxist
DS/UK/3399Horner; Arthur Lewis (5 April 1894-4 September 1968); Welsh trade union leader, Communist politician
DS/UK/3973Bush; Alan Dudley (1900-1995); British composer, pianist
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