JOURNAL OF THE IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY

148 SAOTHAR 13Emmet Stagg is Labour Party Deputy for Kildare.Alistair Tough is Assistant Archivist, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library, Coventry.Sarah Ward-Perkins is Archivist, ILHS Survey of Trade Union and Labour Records, Dublin.JamesD. Young left school in 1945, aged 14 and worked as a sawmill labourer and railway worker before winninga scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford in 1953. He lectures in history at the University of Stirling and isauthor of the controversial, anti-imperialist book, The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class, (Croom Helm,1979). This autumn Harvester/Wheatsheaf publish his Socialism and the English Working Class, 1883 -1939and Pinter publish his magnum opus Socialism Since 1889: A Biographical History. He insists on the needfor militant, democratic socialism-from-below.The EditorsFrancis Devine, Tutor, Education and Training Department, Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, Dublin,is President, ILHS.Emmet O'Connor, studied at Waterford Regional Technical College before going up to University College,Galway. At present he teaches politics in Magee College, Derry.The editors wish to thank others who have assisted in the production of Saothar 13: Jean Kennedy for wordprocessing; the Communications Department, Irish Transport and 'General Workers' Union for computertypesetting and pagination;· Norah O'Neill for general management and proofing; Ann Riordan, Caoimhe NiDhuibhinn, Fiachra 6 Duibhinn and Liam Healy for proof reading; the National Library of Ireland for permissionto reproduce the Connolly election handbill and SDF letterhead; Andrew Rothstein, London, for the Boris Kahanphotograph; Manus O'Riordan for assistance with the illustrative material; Joe Deasy for the photographs ofhimself; Yvonne McGlynn, Department of Geography, UCD, for cartography; and, as ever, Patrick Funge and hisstaff at Elo Press for their usual high professionalism, courtesy and encouragement.IMETU: Irish Municipal Employees'Trade UnionThe Irish Municipal Employees'Trade Union, in commemorationof its centenary as Ireland's oldest general workers' union,produced a published history of the Union and recommendsthe work to all concerned with the study of the history of Irishworking people.Sean Redmond, The Irish Municipal Employees' TradeUnion, 1883-1983, (150 pages, illustrated). Available from theUnion for £3 plus 60p postage.IMETU, 8 Gardiner .. Place, Dublin 1. Telephone: (01-)743392