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2 unusual facts about Wal Hannington


National Minority Movement

Other prominent figures included Wal Hannington, in charge of organization of the metal workers until transferred by the party to work organising the unemployed, the engineer J.T. "Jack" Murphy and coal miners A. J. Cook, Arthur Horner and Nat Watkins.

Wal Hannington

In 1925 he was one of 12 members of the Communist Party convicted at the Old Bailey under the Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797, and one of the five defendants sentenced to 12 months imprisonment.



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