Jack Lawson Papers 1894-1980s
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Lawson, Jack, 1881-1965
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The Labour Party of Great Britain supported Soviet Russia against Poland during the military campaign of 1920 From the guide to the Labour Party broadsheets, 1920, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...
John James (Jack) Lawson, Baron Lawson, 1881-1965
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Jack Lawson was born in Whitehaven, but moved to Co. Durham at an early age. He began work in the pits (Boldon Colliery) at the age of 12. After a short period at Ruskin College, Oxford, in his twenties, he returned to the pits and came increasingly to prominence as a miners' leader. In 1919 he was elected to Parliament. He was Labour M.P. for Chester-le-Street 1919-1949, was in the first Labour government, 1924, as Financial Secretary to the War Office, again held junior ministeria...
