Talk:Free Trade Union

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Wow, Gonzonoir, you were quick off the mark! I was working out how to do the citation and when I looked, you had done it. It's good to see your edit, which avoids close copying. In fact, there are more authors: I had prepared:-

Barberis, Peter; McHugh, John; Tyldesley, Mike (2000). Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements in the Twentieth Century. London: Pinter – A Continuum Imprint. pp. 562, . ISBN 10: 1855672642,13: 978-1855672642. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)

However, the category is not trade unions ... it was a political organisation to promote free trade. It was hard to find a reference because Google keeps throwing up stuff about 'free (not restricted) trade unions' Mikeo1938 (talk) 08:34, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

No worries - I was doing new page patrol and it caught my interest among the endless stream of garage band and attack pages :) Have subbed in what I hope is a better stub tag - what do you think?

As for sources, I've turned up this and this as well; both look very promising for expanding this. Would you fancy working together to build this up to DYK standard? Gonzonoir (talk) 08:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

All noted ... I can do a bit but currently have other things on the go outside Wiki. On the Wiki front, I'm translating a piece from Wiki/de about the Schocken department stores. There's a reference to Andrew McFadyean there but I couldn't find him on Wiki/en. Accordingly, I started the article. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (hope that's the correct title) refers to the fact that AM had been president (chairman?) of the 'old' Free Trade Union, but again I had a job to find anything. I've got access to the Times Digital Archive and spotted a piece which refers to the FTU as having been 'recently established' in 1903. How about the citation? Should I add the other authors etc, as indicated in bold above? Mikeo1938 (talk) 13:07, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

With regard to the article about Andrew McFadyean, I consider that it's now more than a stub. Can that marker be removed?Mikeo1938 (talk) 13:27, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Have read guidelines re stub removal and have removed the two stub tags.Mikeo1938 (talk) 14:31, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Political activities

A party standing in my area this election was the "Magna Carta" party. I looked them up only to find no website, no Wikipedia entry, etc. However, according to an interview with one of their other candidates by the Hackney Citizen, they used to be called "The Fre Trade League", which led me here. My question is simply "Are these the same and who are they"? Anyone know? -- 86.2.250.156 (talk) 16:45, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry don't know. However, when I spotted your change I added the note about McFadyean.Mikeo1938 (talk) 17:52, 7 May 2010 (UTC)