Record

Performance TitleLabour and a Real League of People - Daily Herald Meeting
Performance Date1 December 1918
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time18:00
Main PerformersMr George Lansbury (Presiding),
Mr J W Muir,
Mr W N Ewer,
Mr Philip Snowden,
Mr J Ramsay MacDonald,
Mr F Meynell,
Major Gillespie DSO,
Miss Evelyn Sharp - speakers,

Carmen Hill,
Albert Garcia - vocals,
Lena Kontrorovitch - violin,
Hilda Saxe - piano
Charles Warner
Secondary PerformersEllen Tuckfield
ChoirsPianoeer Choir
Set ListOrgan Recital (Charles Warner, Choir),

Half Hour Concert:
'Ye Bonnie Braes and Doons', Scottish (Carmen Hill),
'Jock o'Hazeldean', Scottish (Carmen Hill),
Piano soli: a) 'Gavotte', Gluck-Brahms (Hilda Saxe),
'Russian Dance', Moussorgsky (Hilda Saxe),
Violin soli: 'Nocturne in D', Chopin (Lena Kontorovich),
'Caprice', Paganini (Lena Kontorovich),
'The Sands of Dee', Clay (Albert Garcia),
'The Crocodile', trad. Folk Song (Albert Garcia)

Meeting:
Chairmans Speech (George Lansbury),
Vote of Thanks,
First Resolution (Mr W N Ewer),
Collection for the Daily Herald Advertising Fund,
Second Resolution (Mr Philip Snowden),
Speech (Mr J Ramsay MacDonald),
Speech (Mr F Meynell),
Motion and Seconding (Major Gillespie DSO, Miss Evelyn Sharp),
'The Red Flag'
Performance NotesThis meeting was added due to the overwhelmeing demand for tickets for the meeting held the previous day, 30 November 1918.

That meeting (originally scheduled for the 23 November 1918) was cancelled by the management of the Royal Albert Hall on advice from Scotland Yard because of the 'demonstrations of a revolutionary character' that had taken place recently by members of Mr Lansbury's supporters in the Hall at previous meetings. Because of this decision, the members of the Kensington branch of the Electrical Trades Union had cut off the electric light supply to the Hall. The management were forced to back down and the event went ahead.

"Albert Hall Reprisal - Following the cutting-off of the electric supply to the Albert Hall by the Electrical Trades Union as a reprisal, the band on the Labour meeting, which should have been held there last Saturday, has been removed on the recommendation of the Government, and the meeting will take place on Saturday next."
(Daily Mirror, November 1918)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1918/56),
Event Correspondence (RAHE/4/8/2)
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Cganois_Zit_HLabour and a Real League of People - Daily Herald Meeting2
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1583Hill; Carmen (fl 1883-1924); Scottish singer
DS/UK/3301Saxe; Hilda (1886-1962); English pianist
DS/UK/4199Garcia; Albert (1875-1946); Spanish-born baritone
DS/UK/1970Warner; Charles (fl 1910-1920s); English organist
DS/UK/163Lansbury; George (1859-1940); British Labour politician
DS/UK/290Daily Herald; 15 April 1912-1964; British newspaper
DS/UK/1337MacDonald; James Ramsay (1866-1937); British Labour Party politician
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