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  Election manifesto of Emmanuel Shinwell, 1924
Emmanuel Shinwell's activism in the Labour movement began when he became a member of the ILP and became involved in municipal politics.
Shinwell's parliamentary career began with his election to the House of Commons in 1922 as one of the ten Red Clydesider's.
Shinwell lost his seat at Linlithgow in the 1931 General Election although he returned to the House of Commons in 1935 after defeating Ramsay MacDonald at Seaham.
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 Emmanuel Shinwell. Who is Emmanuel Shinwell? What is Emmanuel Shinwell? Where is Emmanuel Shinwell? Definition of ...
Emanuel Shinwell ( October 18, 1884 - May 8, 1986) (familiarly known as Manny) was born in London, but moved with his Jewish family to Scotland.
He was a Labour politician and was one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside.
Shinwell was made Baron Shinwell in 1970 and died in 1986.
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 Emanuel Shinwell
Emanuel Shinwell, the son of a tailor, was born in London in 1884.
A member of the Labour Party, Shinwell was elected to the House of Commons in November 1922.
Shinwell, a strong opponent of MacDonald's new government, lost his seat at Linlithgow in the 1931 General Election.
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In April Shinwell, Gallacher, Kirkwood, Hopkins, Ebury, Brennan, and Alexander were tried in the High Court in Edinburgh for inciting a riot.
Most were acquitted but Emmanuel Shinwell, Chairman of Glasgow Trades Council, and Willie Gallacher, leader of the CWC were sentenced to 5 and 3 months in prison.
Shinwell later become a Minister in the Labour government and then elevated to the House of Lords.
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 A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Labour leadership accepted him as a spokesman on a number of issues, though the Co-op was not affiliated to the Labour Party until 1927.
Attlee, now leader of the PLP, asked him to join a new defence committee, working with Shinwell and Jack Lawson to reverse the pacifist ideals which had prevailed under Lansbury.
For practical reasons, the Minister of Defence needed to be a member of the Commons, and Emmanuel Shinwell succeeded to this role.
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 Manny Shinwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He was a Trade Union official and Labour politician and was one of the leading figures of Red Clydeside.
Shinwell began his working life as a machinist in a clothing workshop.
In 1903 he became active in the Amalgamated Union of Clothing Operatives, and joined the Glasgow Trades Council in 1906 as a delegate of that union.
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 Paul Foot: 101 years of not thinking (1986)
In the House of Lords, Lord Whitelaw; at his funeral, the Thatcher knight and editor of the Sunday Express, Sir John Junor; in the House of Commons, Margaret Thatcher herself – all rushed to honour Manny.
When I confronted him with the hideous reality of Emmanuel Shinwell in the early 1960s, Harry would shake his head and say, ‘Yes, that’s all very well, but you should have heard his speeches in the famous 40-hour strike in Glasgow in 1919’;.
Shinwell was magnificent during that strike and the vast agitation which accompanied it, Harry always insisted.
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 Linlithgow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the 1920s the shire was represented by Emmanuel 'Manny' Shinwell who was Labour's Secretary of Mines at the Board of Trade.
Manny Shinwell lost Linlithgowshire at the general election of November 1924 but won it back in1928, being defeated for a second time in 1931 when Labour were practically wiped out throughout Britain after Labour Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald left the party to form a National Government.
In the 1935 election, Manny Shinwell contested the English mining constituency of Shipley where he thrashed, Ramsay MacDonald, the previous Labour and National Labour Prime Minister, taking more than 38,000 votes compared to less than 18,000 for Ramsay MacDonald.
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 Emmanuel
Emmanuel was first used as a name by the Greeks.
Their son was named Emmanuel Philibert and the name passed into use among the Italian nobility.
For English, Emmanuel is the New Testament spelling, and Immanuel the Old Testament spelling.
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Emmanuel Shinwell, the Glasgow Trades Council president, persuaded them to go for 40 hours a week.
More than a dozen strikers were taken to Duke Street Prison and later tried at the High Court in Edinburgh.
Manny Shinwell, William Gallacher and David Kirkwood were jailed for several months.
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 Guardian | Richard Walton
After the war, Beecham was busy recruiting the new Royal Philharmonic orchestra, with which he proposed to fulfil a heavy recording schedule.
Clement Atlee's 1945 Labour government set much store by the arts, and the new forces minister, Emmanuel Shinwell, was persuaded to release Walton to again become Beecham's principal trumpeter.
He held this position until 1956, when he transferred to Walter Legge's Philharmonia orchestra, from where, in 1963, he joined the BBC Symphony orchestra as co-principal, staying until retirement in 1982.
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 Conservative Party - Profile
When he was eight he went to boarding school in England and eventually to Wellington College where he became Head Boy and played rugby for the school.
He then went on to read economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he spoke in the Union and founded a national political organisation for young people called 'Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism'.
He fought his first general election in 1966 against Emmanuel Shinwell in the constituency of Easington (when he was the youngest candidate in the country fighting the oldest) and again in 1970.
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 Independent, The (London): Obituary: Lord Dormand of Easington
All my Durham parliamentary colleagues are united in telling me that Dormand was an outstanding educational administrator, and between 1963 and 1970 he served as Director of Education for Easington District.
During this period he was also secretary of the Easington Labour Party and for a decade successor-in-waiting to the octogenarian Emmanuel Shinwell.
Dormand succeeded Shinwell in 1970, and I sat immediately in front of him when, from the back row of the opposition benches, on 8 July, he gave a very powerful, well-informed maiden speech.
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 Overview of Lord Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Labour politician, born in London, but brought up in Glasgow.
Elected as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire between 1922 and 1924 and again between 1928 and 1931, Shinwell defeated Ramsay MacDonald () in Seaham Harbour (County Durham, England) in 1935.
As chairman of the Labour party from 1942, he wrote the manifesto which gave labour their great general election victory of 1945.
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By July 1951, the British security agencies realised that the Russians were using it to spy on covert British activity, particularly those concerned with the air defence system.
The news was immediately referred to the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, and discussed in Cabinet Defence Committee, which included the PM, Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison and Defence Secretary Emmanuel Shinwell.
The committee took the decision that the radio monitoring aspect of the Tass station should be closed immediately.
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 BBC ON THIS DAY | 29 | 1950: British troops arrive in Korea
American troops have been in the region since the beginning of July and there has been deep concern in Britain that it has taken so long to send support.
At the end of July, the Minister of Defence, Emmanuel Shinwell, announced a self-contained expeditionary force, including armour, artillery and engineers, as well as infantry, would be sent to Korea.
But he said ground forces would not be withdrawn from Malaya or Hong Kong to make up the force.
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 "Seek not to peer into men's souls" - Samuel Brittan: Talk at John Smith Institute 30/04/03
But I have always been bothered by a much more basic criticism which was made to me in no uncertain terms by a veteran Labour Party leader of years gone by, one Emmanuel Shinwell.
There are erroneous beliefs that are often regarded as common sense but which are really self serving convictions, which I sometimes dignify by the name of businessmen's economics.
But before we can nail the fallacies I have to bore you with two basic principles which, despite what Shinwell said, it might need an economist to point out.
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Ramsay Macdonald lost in Seaham to Emmanuel Shinwell by 38,380 to 17,882.
For the first time a Labour government had an overall majority and could put into effect some of its ideals.
Emmanuel Shinwell, MP for Seaham, became Minister of Fuel and Power to carry out the pre-war dream of nationalisation.
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 17 August 1942
Men in trades where skills are scarce, such as Fleet Air Arm radar mechanics, will find themselves in uniform for months, perhaps years longer than simple truck drivers.
The minister of fuel and power, Emmanuel Shinwell, has announced a drive to increase coal production by 18 million tons annually to avert fuel shortages.
The government announces a programme of social reform, with a national health service at its centre.
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Absenteeism, for example, had risen from 6.4 per cent in 1939 to16.3 per cent in 1945.
'It is my duty to warn the House', said the Minister of Fuel and Power, Emmanuel Shinwell, in the Commons in January, 'that the existing position contains the elements of industrial disaster.' 7
Buchman believed that he had, in the play The Forgotten Factor, a weapon which could be useful in this situation.
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 Guardian | Baroness White of Rhymney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Eirene served for years on Labour's national executive committee.
She was first elected in 1947, when her companions included the prime minister Clement Attlee, Harold Laski, Hugh Dalton, Herbert Morrison and Emmanuel Shinwell, and was a member, on and off, until 1972.
She had always done her homework before those stormy meetings, yet for all her ability and industry, she often lacked the lubricant of tact and persuasion in those rough days.
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 scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He had broken with James Maxton and the Clydedside socialists, the worldwide economic recession was overpowering, while his moderate stance on many views caused a waning in his support.
He lost his seat in 1935 to Emmanuel Shinwell.
Eventually, Stanley Baldwin became head of government, MacDonald resigning his lord presidency in 1937.
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These encouraged a spirit of critical thinking and rational enquiry which ultimately enabled many workers to reject sectarianism.
Indeed many of the prominent socialists and anti-war activists from the war started in the free-thought movement, including Willie Gallacher, Emmanuel Shinwell and the key figure of John Maclean.
The second factor which Harry McShane indicates as being important in transforming Glasgow's politics is the campaign against unemployment which began in 1908.
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 Aron Shai - Articles
Shortly after the People's Republic was established, the situation worsened even further as hopes to preserve the estimated f200-300 million worth of assets possessed by British firms and individuals there gradually evaporated.
Earlier, during the Pacific War and the period immediately following it, diametrically-opposed representatives of the British economy - business circles, primarily the China Association on the one hand, and Labor patriots, such as Emmanuel Shinwell on the other — often adopted similar policies with regard to British business interests in China.
At times they seemed to be clinging to a strong imperial momentum.
www.tau.ac.il /~aashai/Courses/20thChina/bibliography/20thchinaBIBLIO.htm   (8346 words)

  
 Business History: Colliery managers and nationalisation: the experience in South Wales.
Colliery managers, dismissed as hand-in-glove with, if not identical to, the coalowners, have been relatively neglected by historians.
Their general image was so bad that Emmanuel Shinwell, the Minister of Fuel and Power, described them as knowing as much about social affairs 'as a pig does about pianos'.(1) Accordingly, managers' opposition to public ownership is taken for granted.
Francis and Smith, talking about surprise and disbelief among many South Wales miners after nationalisation, contend, 'i~t soon became evident that the necessary break had not happened and that there...
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