CALDERDALE TRADES UNION COUNCIL PUBLIC EVENTS IN APRIL, MAY AND JUNE

 

CALDERDALE TRADES UNION COUNCIL PUBLIC EVENTS IN APRIL, MAY AND JUNE

MONDAY 28th APRIL

WORKERS’ MEMORIAL DAY

12.30pm at WMD plinth next to Halifax Central Library

Various speakers and wreath laying

See CTUC film on WMD – REMEMBER THE DEAD AND FIGHT FOR THE LIVING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLyeMYnpVjo

SUNDAY 4TH MAY

May Day celebrations 2pm at Hebden Bridge Trades Club

WOMEN AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR DEMOCRACY  – Judy Cox, Jill Liddington, Jenny Shepherd and Christine of Forus Tree

Watch Judy Cox on women at the EP Thompson event in 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqrVpyWVzp8&t=34s

FRIDAY 30TH MAY

6.30pm start – JAW, JAW or WAR, WAR?

Professor Paul Rogers

Alex Gordon, RMT and Stop the War Coalition https://www.facebook.com/reel/603624528583689

At Calderdale Industrial Museum

Watch an earlier CTUC talk by Andrew Feinstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNpv82dKVqs&t=47s

THURSDAY 12th JUNE

INTERNATIONAL DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOUR

4.30PM at Luddenden Dean Wesleyan Methodist Chapelyard

Heys Lane, HX2 7TR England

Wreath laying for 7 worked to death orphans buried in the cemetery

Speakers to include 17-year-old Charlie Metcalf, Dan Whittall (NEU) and, hopefully, UNICEF

Watch this CTUC video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdcrdIlxs60&t=95s

FRIDAY 20 JUNE

6.30pm start – 100th anniversary celebrations: Halifax and the successful strike in 1925 by textile workers in West Yorkshire  Read more at:- https://markwrite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/halifaxbooklet.pdf

Speakers – Keith Laybourn and Alan Fowler

At the CALDERDALE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM

Contact CTUC on Nigel 07709 684473 or Mark on 07392 852561 info@calderdaletuc.org.uk