Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights
About this Event
Join us for a talk with Dr Jim Moher, the biographer of trade union leader Walter Citrine. Citrine was one of the key organisers of the trade union movement during the General Strike in 1926.
He went on to become the General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress , helping it become a major force nationally and internationally. In the 1930s Citrine was invited to be part of the Moyne Commission. The Commission was set up to investigate the poor conditions for workers across the West Indies. Join Jim to hear more about Citrine’s experiences during these two key moments of worker agitation.
Attendees at this event will have an opportunity to view materials from Walter Citrine's personal archive, including his diary 1925-1928, now on the LSE Digital Library.
Dr Jim Moher was a national union official (T&GWU and CWU) for much of his career. While still working full-time, in 1989 he presented an original thesis on the history of the early engineering and millwrights' trade combinations, for which he received a London University Ph D. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History at Kings College, London since 2008. He was also a founder member of the History & Policy Trade Union Forum, which examines the history of industrial relations and employment to inform current policy development. Jim was, until recently, chair of the Wembley History Society and he lectures frequently on Citrine's Wembley, Harrow and Liverpool connections. With this first complete biography of Walter Citrine, Jim aims to recover the remarkable achievements and public service contributions of an important British and international union and Labour movement figure.
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