Dare to be a Daniel! A history of one of Britain’s earliest syndicalist unions
McCartney, Wilf and Albert Meltzer. Dare to be a Daniel! A history of one of Britain’s earliest syndicalist unions. Kate Sharpley Library: 2004. 26 pages.
McCartney, a catering worker from age 10, gives a vivid description of the conditions in the kitchens of London’s West End restaurants, the rise of a revolutionary syndicalist union in 1910, the ways in which it won every strike it undertook (!), and its eventual demise in 1914 with World War I. An important page of anarchist and labour history.
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Contents
- McCartney, Wilf. 01, Life as an apprentice cook.
- McCartney, Wilf. 02, My early impressions.
- McCartney, Wilf. 03, The Tronc system.
- McCartney, Wilf. 04, The Staff and its food.
- McCartney, Wilf. 05, A desire for action.
- McCartney, Wilf. 06, Constitution of the French Cooks Syndicate.
- McCartney, Wilf. 07, Direct Action.
- McCartney, Wilf. 08, More lightning strikes.
- McCartney, Wilf. 09, War and the people.
- McCartney, Wilf. 10, The United Catering Trade Union.
- McCartney, Wilf. 11, Teashop waitresses' strike.
- McCartney, Wilf. 12, Comparisons.
- Meltzer, Albert. 00, The publishing history of "Dare to be a Daniel!".