Example sentences of "[noun pl] council " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack Dromey of Brent Trades Council told me : Willesden and Stonebridge ( in NW London ) used to be known in the 30s as Red Willesden and Red Stonebridge . |
| 2 | We instruct ill local transport committees review permits which have been issued No trades council or Labour Party Council of action , strike committee or trade union branch has authority to deal with permits . |
| 3 | Indeed , Bradford set up a home for Basque children up Manningham Lane , though it was largely financed by the Trades Council . |
| 4 | This is beautifully illustrated by the actions of the Bradford Trades Council , whose secretary was also the secretary of the Bradford Labour Party . |
| 5 | In 1962 the only focus for the local Labour movement was the trades council . |
| 6 | In 1965 a permanent Independent Labour group was formed , which ran McGonagle 's ITGWU colleague , Seamus Quinn , secretary of the trades council . |
| 7 | In July , 1911 , a Central Care Committee ( CCC ) was appointed , with members drawn from the Women 's Settlement , the Sunday School Union , the Children 's Service Union , Church of England Sunday Schools , the CLB , the BB , the Boy Scouts , the Street Children 's Union , the Church of England Men 's Society , and the Trades Council . |
| 8 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 9 | The chairperson adjusted the microphone The assembly whispered into silence : she welcomed everyone , introduced the people on the stage , including two members of the local Trades Council who had helped sponsor the meetings , and introduced the evening 's main speaker , Lesley Wright . |
| 10 | The West Ham Trades Council resolved that conscription was a serious threat to the labour movement , and summoned Thorne to explain his support for it at the 1916 Labour Party conference ( East Ham Echo 12 February 16 ) . |
| 11 | In cooperation with local branches of the ILP , the trades council and Plebs League , a series of weekly classes on Marxism was held at Stratford at which average attendance was over 80 ( Bush 1978 p 128 ) . |
| 12 | The combined efforts of ILP and BSP members at a West Ham Trades Council and Central Labour Party conference on the selection of parliamentary candidates defeated Will Thorne ; D J Davis ( ILP ) , B Gardner ( ILP ) , J Edwards ( SSP ) and J Jones ( NSR ) were nominated ( ibid.13 January 18 ) . |
| 13 | Following pressure from the NSP and Lansbury , the National Labour Party urged West Ham Trades Council not to run a candidate against Thorne at Plaistow . |
| 14 | The trades council acceded , and left him with a clear run . |
| 15 | All members were to join the local Communist Party , which in ensuing years became a rather more effective instrument of political influence , particularly on the West Ham Trades Council ( p 106 ) and amongst the unemployed ( p 142 ) . |
| 16 | Simultaneously , Jack Wood , soon to be returned unopposed in the forthcoming municipal election , told the West Ham Trades Council that ‘ he was more delighted to have a place on ( the ) united Labour Party platform than to have a seat on the council ’ ( ibid ) . |
| 17 | in so far as Cooperation is fundamentally opposed to the existing economic basis of society , this meeting of Stratford Cooperators consider it desirable , in order to fully organise and obtain the best results from their political acts , that the advisory committee be instructed to enter into negotiations and act in conjunction with the Trades Council and Labour Representation Committees in the area covered by this Society 's operations . |
| 18 | In spite of local cooperative strength there was none in West Ham because of potential conflict with the West Ham Trades Council and Labour Representation Committee , which at the time controlled selection of Labour candidates . |
| 19 | Anticipating industrial action the West Ham Trades Council established a committee to confer with the SCS on the best means of guaranteeing adequate supplies of food in the Stratford stores for the families of strikers ( SE 4 October 19 ) . |
| 20 | Rather belatedly the local Labour Party got its act together and , along with the Trades Council , passed resolutions condemning its own councillors . |
| 21 | In researching the activists I went also to the local trades council and its women 's committee , union meetings called over disputes , local demonstrations , courses and day schools for women trade unionists . |
| 22 | On 20 January 1905 , for example , the Trades Union Congress , the London Trades Council and the Social Democratic Federation ( a Marxist organisation ) arranged a conference on the state maintenance of children . |
| 23 | Commenting on the composition of the Edinburgh Trades Council in mid-century , Ian McDougall writes : " local trade unionism was predominantly , though not exclusively , that of the skilled workers or labour aristocracy " In printing , a craft trade par excellence , organization went back as least as far as the eighteenth century in Edinburgh and several other towns . |
| 24 | The Trades Council recorded in its minutes of 28 January that elements of pressure had been put upon [ the Edinburgh printers ] , enormous sums of money had been expended , rare inducements had been held out , untruths had been circulated , even religion had been abused [ ? ] and brought to play on purpose to shake the men , and yet after all these means had been expended and an income verging on starvation , the men had remained as firm as at first . " |
| 25 | If a rule book was not yet available , that was because it was … at the printer's. 64 But the Edinburgh Trades Council refused to recognize the women 's union , describing it as a " bogus association , engineered by women suffragists " and its leaders found themselves beleaguered . |
| 26 | There were night jobs to be done , among them the meetings of Bideford Trades Council . |
| 27 | The Sunderland Union had elected him as its delegate to the local trades council . |
| 28 | In the autumn of the following year branches were opened at Cardiff by John Gardner of the Cardiff Trades Council and at Newport by Albert Kenny , who also extended his organising activities to Dublin , Cork and Whitehaven . |
| 29 | The Marine Caterer for October 1911 records that " foreign labour having been introduced into Cunard , Mr Cotter , among others was put out of the Mauritania " and that in 1909 he asked the assistance of the Liverpool Trades Council to organise seagoing stewards . |
| 30 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |