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Actions	Interview with Bessy Johnson Remove from selection Add to selection TitleInterview with Bessy Johnson ReferenceTAPE/209 Date n.d. Scope and ContentBessy Johnson was born in 1909. She talks about the Board of Guardians parish relief during the 1926 miners strike. She joined the Young Communist League then the Communist Party. She describes her trade union activities, and her work in the Co-operative Womens Guild, and the National Assembly of Women. Her father helped organise the National Union of Unemployed Workers. She describes collecting food for Spain, and the Daily Worker (1985). There is a Word document which gives a more detailed summary of the tape. Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings Physical descriptionDuration: 45 min. LanguageEnglish Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library. The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing. Persons keywordJohnson, Bessy, Communist Party of Great Britain, Young Communist League, Co-operative Women's Guild, National Assembly of Women, Daily Worker SubjectOral history, Trade unions, General strike (1926), Poverty, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) Conditions governing accessOpen Levelfile Normal locationZ (Room 24)

TitleInterview with Bessy Johnson

ReferenceTAPE/209

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Scope and ContentBessy Johnson was born in 1909. She talks about the Board of Guardians parish relief during the 1926 miners strike. She joined the Young Communist League then the Communist Party. She describes her trade union activities, and her work in the Co-operative Womens Guild, and the National Assembly of Women. Her father helped organise the National Union of Unemployed Workers. She describes collecting food for Spain, and the Daily Worker (1985). There is a Word document which gives a more detailed summary of the tape.

Extent1 cassette tape and 2 digital recordings

Physical descriptionDuration: 45 min.

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyThe views and opinions expressed in the interview(s) are the interviewee’s own, and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Working Class Movement Library.
The interview may contain attitudes and/or language that some people may find offensive and may contain discussions of events that some people may find distressing.

Persons keywordJohnson, Bessy, Communist Party of Great Britain, Young Communist League, Co-operative Women's Guild, National Assembly of Women, Daily Worker

SubjectOral history, Trade unions, General strike (1926), Poverty, Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)

Conditions governing accessOpen

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Normal locationZ (Room 24)

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