Inventory

Acc.5659

Scottish Labour History Society Exhibitions: ‘The Life and Times of William Gallacher 1881-1965’ and Labour history

National Library of Scotland Manuscripts Division George IV Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1EW Tel: 0131-466 2812 Fax: 0131-466 2811 E-mail: [email protected]

© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland William Gallacher socialist agitator, chairman of Clyde Workers Committee 1914- 1918, leading member of communist Party and communist M.P. for West Fife 1935- 1950. An exhibition based on his life and times and labour history in Scotland was arranged by the Scottish Labour History Society for the National Union of Mineworkers (Scottish Area) c1966. All photographs are monochrome and undated unless stated otherwise.

Presented by Ian MacDougall.

1-21 William Gallacher 22-30 Communist Party of Great Britain 31-42 Political Activists 43-59 Strikes and Riots, 1915-1926 60-70 Miners, Workers and Galas 71-82 Russia 83-91 Spanish Civil War

1-21 William Gallacher

1. Copy correspondence, articles, reports and exhibition commentaries, William Gallacher and Socialist politics and labour history in Scotland, c1800-1965 (124 items)

2. Photograph, Street corner with public bar in Paisley, birth place of W Gallacher

3. Photograph, W Gallacher and school class, c1886

4. Photograph, W Gallacher and his family, c1895

5. Photograph, Jean Gallacher and her adopted sons Don and John

6. Photograph, W Gallacher in USA with The Industrial Workers of the World, 1913

7. Photograph, W Gallacher, 1915

8. Photograph, W Gallacher, 1919 (2 items)

9. Photograph, Pencil drawing of W Gallacher by I Brodsky, 1920

10. Photograph, W Gallacher, 1930s

11. Photograph, W Gallacher and Phil Piratin, c1935

12. Photograph, W Gallacher with an old friend at Herne Hill, 1938

13. Photograph, W Gallacher with Fife constituents, 1940s

14. Photograph, W Gallacher making first radio broadcast, 1943

15. Photograph, W Gallacher, c1950

16. Photograph, WGallacher giving speech, c1950

17. Photograph, W Gallacher in garden with statuette of Sputnik, 1960

18. Photograph, W Gallacher and his wife Jean Gallacher

19. Photograph, W Gallacher with passport, c1964

20. Photograph, W Gallacher in his later years

21. Photographs, colour, Funeral of W Gallacher, Aug 1965 (6 items)

22-30 Communist Party of Great Britain

22. Photograph, Communist Party Leaders, including Kerrigan and Pollitt

23. Photograph, Communist Party Leaders, including Pollitt, W Gallacher and Collan

24. Photograph, Communist Party of Great Britain members

25. Photograph, 1st central committee of Communist Party of Great Britain members

26. Photograph, David Proudfoot, Communist miner in East Fife, c1920s

27. Photograph, Communist leaders, tried for sedition and incitement in 1925 and photograph, Jimmy Ord (1902-1961), militant miner and founder of Communist party

28. Photograph, Bruce Wallace, Communist councillor in Fife, and others and Photograph, Jimmy Ord (1902-1961), militant miner and founder of Communist party (2 items)

29. Photograph, John Bird (1896-1964), miner, union activist and Communist councillor

30. Photograph, W Gallacher at 40th anniversary of Communist Party of Great Britain, 1960 (2 items)

31-42 Political Activists

31. Photograph, John MacLean, John Maxton and W Gallacher and others at Gorbals Election, 1918

32. Photograph, John MacLean and Scottish Labour College students

33. Photograph, Scottish Labour College students

34. Photograph, John MacLean and others

35. Photograph, John MacLean

36. Photograph, Philip Hodge (1872- 1936), General Secretary, Fife Miners’ Reform Union

37. Photograph, Miners leaders, 1930s

38. Photograph, W Gallacher and G Monmousseau, c1929

39. Photograph, William Adamson M.P.

40. Photograph, Karl Marx

41. Photograph, Rosa Luxemburg, Polish revolutionary leader of German Social Democratic left wing

42. Photograph, Karl Liebknecht, leader of German Social Democratic left wing

43-59 Strikes and Riots, 1915- 1926

43. Photograph, Group on rent strike including Andrew McBride and Ben Shaw, 1915

44. Photograph, Group on rent strike including placards, 1915

45. Photograph, Group on rent strike including placards and children, 1915

46. Photograph, Soldiers and police on guard at Glasgow docks, Feb 1919

47. Photograph, Damage to shops in Argyle Street during Forty hours strike

48. Photograph, Soldiers on guard on bridge over Clyde

49. Photograph, Leaders of forty hours strike on trial

50. Photograph, David Kirkwood surrounded by police after being batoned

51. Photographs, Demonstration in George Square, Glasgow, ‘Bloody Friday,’ and Red Flag being flown in George Square, 31 Jan 1919 (2 items)

52. Photograph, Cover of The 40 Hours Strike: An Historic Survey of the First General Strike in Scotland by D S Morton

53. Photograph, Strike Bulletin, 40 Hours Strike Committee daily newssheet, 30 Jan 1919

54. Photograph, Strike Bulletin, 40 Hours Strike Committee daily newssheet, 1 Feb 1919

55. Photograph, Bowhill miner strike, 1 shilling paper money, Aug, 1920

56. Photograph, Banished Clyde workers, including J M Messer and D Kirkwood, 1926

57. Photograph, Mounted man with title ‘Souvenir of the Great Strike 1926’

58. Photograph, Mass meeting of Fife miners during 1926 lock-out

59. Photograph copy posters, ‘To the Workers.- Call to Arms’ and ‘Demand a 40- hour week NOW!,’ (2 items)

60-70 Miners, Workers and Galas

60. Photograph, Lloyd George at meeting of Clyde Workers’ Committee, 25 Dec 1915

61. Photograph, Fife miners with W Gallacher

62. Photograph, Fife miners’ gala, 1920s (2 items)

63. Photograph, W Gallacher addressing May Day rally, Aberdour, Fife

64. Photograph, W Gallacher with miners’ leaders at gala in Fife, 1930s

65. Photograph, W Gallacher with veteran Fife miners and their wives

66. Photograph, Bowhill colliery, West Fife

67. Photograph, Five miners in a pit

68. Photograph, Four miners in a pit

69. Photograph, Two miners in a pit

70. Photograph, Albion Motor Car Co Ltd employees

71-81 Russia

71. Photograph, Bolshevick funeral with coffin carried through streets, 1905

72. Photograph, Bolshevick cavalry in the civil war

73. Photograph, The Soviet in Petrograd after the February Revolution

74. Photograph, Street scene in Petrograd, Bolshevick procession broken by police, July 1917

75. Photograph, Lenin, Stalin and Kalinin, 1919

76. Photograph, Lenin with Stalin, 1922

77. Photograph, Stalin

78. Photographs, Gallacher at 2nd Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, 1920 (2 items)

79. Photograph, W Gallacher at 7th Congress of the Communist International, Moscow, 1935

80. Photograph, W Gallacher at Russian workers rally

81. Photograph, W Gallacher at Likhachyov car factory in Moscow, 1960

82-91 Spanish Civil War

82. Photograph, Dolores Ibarrui (La Passionara) Spanish civil war leader.

83. Photograph, Fugitives from Malaga during Spanish Civil War

84. Photograph, ‘No Pasaran,’ foot smashing swastika

85. Photograph, General Miaja, leading republican general

86. Photograph, Woman and child with title victims of Fascism

87. Photograph, Refugees in the Spanish civil war

88. Photograph, W Gallacher on visit to the front during Spanish Civil war

89. Photograph, Scottish ambulance volunteers in Spanish Civil war

90. Photograph, Fife volunteers for International Brigade, including John Penman of Bowhill

91. Photograph, Veterans at unveiling of International Brigade memorial in Glasgow, 1979