THE REAL BATTLE FOR BRITAIN (1943)

Padley, Walter Ernest (1916-1984, The real battle for Britain (London: Independent Labour Party, [1943]) [Heisler] P4118

Walter Padley, a conscientious objector during Second World War, was the president of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers from 1948 to 1964, and later a Labour MP. This work, written in the midst of the Second World War, remarked on the ‘failure of British Capitalism to organise industry effectively for its own war’, expressing that industrial workers were a rising tide in the world. Interestingly, Padley noted that German workers were organising into an underground movement and creating unrest in Germany.

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