Mary Docherty
Mary Docherty (27 April 1908 – 2 February 2000) was an activist of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Born to a working-class family in the Scottish town of Cowdenbeath, she was influenced by the communist beliefs of her father, a miner, as well as by the poverty she grew up in. She joined the Communist Party at the age of 18, and in 1929 traveled to the Soviet Union as a Scottish delegate to a gathering of young communists. She founded a local children's wing of the Communist Party, carried out a successful agitation to declare 1 May a school holiday, and worked for communist Member of Parliament Willie Gallacher. She retired from active politics at the age of 60, but continued to give talks and write her memoirs, published in 1991 as A Miner's Lass.
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Mary Docherty
Mary Docherty (27 April 1908 – 2 February 2000) was an activist of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Born to a working-class family in the Scottish town of Cowdenbeath, she was influenced by the communist beliefs of her father, a miner, as well as by the poverty she grew up in. She joined the Communist Party at the age of 18, and in 1929 traveled to the Soviet Union as a Scottish delegate to a gathering of young communists. She founded a local children's wing of the Communist Party, carried out a successful agitation to declare 1 May a school holiday, and worked for communist Member of Parliament Willie Gallacher. She retired from active politics at the age of 60, but continued to give talks and write her memoirs, published in 1991 as A Miner's Lass.
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'Auld Bob', a Man in a Million
A Miner's Lass,
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