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 .