Reference code
IE CA CP/3/16/39/19
Title
Statement by Larry Whitehead on Communists in the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union
Date(s)
- 22 Apr. 1951 (Creation)
Level of description
Part
Extent and medium
3 pp; manuscript
Name of creator
(24 November 1900-26 July 1970)
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Scope and content
A statement by Larry Whitehead, bus conductor, regarding the activities of Michael O’Riordan and Larry Wright, ‘two professed Marxists’, and Joseph Fahy, ‘a disciple of Trotsky’, in a branch of the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union. Whitehead also refers in general terms of the threat of communist infiltration of the ITGWU.