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Sources

• "Reg Birch – a life remembered" by Ken Ruddock, [The] New Worker, 23 Mar 2006
  • Marxists.org
  • Original: New Worker Features
• "Obituary: Reg Birch" by Terry Pattinson, The Independent, 16 Jun 1994 (link);
  • Follow-up, by Henry Roe, 21 Jun 1994 (link)
• [TWL] "Birch [formerly Catlin-Birch], Reginald" by Geoffrey Goodman, 25 Sep 2014;
  • Dates: 23 Sep 2004 (print & online publish), 25 Sep 2014 (current version).
• How Much More of This, Old Boy...?: Scenes from a Reporter's Life by Peter Paterson, Feb 2011 (link)
  • p. 183: Information about Birch.
• Reg Birch: Engineer, Trade Unionist, Communist by Will Podmore, 1 May 2004.
• The British Communist Party and the Trade Unions, 1933–1945 by Nina Fishman, 5 Jan 1995.
• Union Man: An Autobiography by Jack Jones, 26 Aug 1986.
• Unemployed Struggles, 1919–1936 by Wal Hannington, 1936.

To-follow up

• ODNB Sources:
  • Trade Union Congress annual conference reports
  • Minutes of the Trade Union Congress general council, 1975–9
  • J. Jones, Union man (1986)
  • N. Fishman, The British communist party and the trade unions, 1933–45 (1995)
  • W. Hannington, Unemployed struggles, 1919–1936 (1937)
  • The Times (9 June 1994)
  • The Guardian (8 June 1994)
  • The Independent (17 June 1994)
  • The Independent (22 June 1994)
  • WWW, 1991–5
  • W. Podmore, Reg Birch: engineer, trade unionist, communist (2004)

Related articles

• Communist Party of Great Britain
• Wal Hannington
  • National Unemployed Workers' Movement
• Amalgamated Engineering Union
• William Carron, Baron Carron
• Hugh Scanlon
• John Boyd (trade unionist)
• Trades Union Congress

Article Ideas

• Structure:
  • Biography:
    • Early life (1914–c.1928)
    • Early political activism (1928–45)
    • Post-war activism (1945–79)
    • Later life and death
  • Personal life