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*Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/2/21/What_is_the_Economic_League.pdf What is the Economic League?] Labour White Papers No. 23, Labour Research Department, London, 1927. | *Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/2/21/What_is_the_Economic_League.pdf What is the Economic League?] Labour White Papers No. 23, Labour Research Department, London, 1927. | ||
| − | *Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/3/33/Economic_League_1937.pdf What is the Economic League?] Revised Edition, Foreword by Ebby Edwards, Secretary, Mineworkers | + | *Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/3/33/Economic_League_1937.pdf What is the Economic League?] Revised Edition, Foreword by Ebby Edwards, Secretary, Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, Labour Research Department, London, 1937. |
*Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/7/71/Economic_League_1953.pdf Who is Behind Them?], May 1953. | *Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/7/71/Economic_League_1953.pdf Who is Behind Them?], May 1953. | ||
*Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/f/f7/Economic_League_1969.pdf A Subversive Guide to the Economic Laegue] 1969. | *Labour Research Department [http://www.spinprofiles.org/images/f/f7/Economic_League_1969.pdf A Subversive Guide to the Economic Laegue] 1969. | ||
Revision as of 18:53, 21 June 2006
An organisation set up in 1919 under the name National Propaganda. Its name was changed to the Economic League in 1924. Its main early functions were corporate propaganda and spying on the left. From about the 1950s its main role became blacklisting workers regarded as being 'subversives' in some way.
The League was closd down in the 1990s and a successor body, called Caprim set up.
Resources
- Labour Research Department What is the Economic League? Labour White Papers No. 23, Labour Research Department, London, 1927.
- Labour Research Department What is the Economic League? Revised Edition, Foreword by Ebby Edwards, Secretary, Mineworkers Federation of Great Britain, Labour Research Department, London, 1937.
- Labour Research Department Who is Behind Them?, May 1953.
- Labour Research Department A Subversive Guide to the Economic Laegue 1969.
Economic League publications
Economic League, Subversion in Industry, Economic League (London and South Eastern Region), February 1958
Economic League, The Agitators: Who the are. How they work. What they want. Service To Industry Series, Booklet No. 3, London: Economic League Central Council, No date. Most propably published in the latter half of 1974.
Notes
Mike Hughes SPIES AT WORK Printed version ISBN 0948995053, 1 IN 12 PUBLICATIONS, 1994.
