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Title	Trade Unions in Crisis: the 1961 ETU Ballot-Rigging Scandal
Description	The ETU ballot-rigging trial was a case brought to the High Court by prominent union members John Thomas Byrne and Frank Chapple in 1961. They alleged that members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) had engaged in "a conspiracy to defraud" in the most recent elections of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU), a relatively successful body that represented electricians, wire fitters, and telephone engineers. The judge ultimately ruled in the plaintiffs' favour. This collection contains verbatim transcripts of the court case. The transcripts provide a unique insight into the CPGB’s influence in the post-war trade union movement. The collection is accompanied by three contextual essays written by Professor Kevin Morgan, a senior academic at the University of Manchester.
ISBN	9781851172337
Contributor	Archive Trust of the Communist Party of Great Britain
Type	collection
Format	jpg
Identifier	https://staging.britishonlinearchives.com/collections/96/trade-unions-in-crisis-the-1961-etu-ballot-rigging-scandal
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Creator	Communist Party of Great Britain
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Rights	Content © Archive Trust of the Communist Party; images © Microform Academic Publishers, 2020. All rights reserved.
Publisher	Microform Academic Publishers
Coverage	1961-1961
Volume Count	1
Document Count	40
Image Count	2,787
Born From	Microfilm This resource is a 2nd generation version of the original material, which was first reproduced on Microfilm and then subsequently digitised. As a result of this, the quality of the final image may vary depending on the quality of the Microfilm the resource was digitised from.
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Created On	28th November, 2020 - 5:45pm
Last Updated	7th March, 2025 - 7:45am