The Worker / The Nottingham Worker
Introduction
The Worker was a paper published in Nottingham, England, shortly after World War I. Unfortunately, as neither the issues nor the articles therein are dated, it is difficult to determine the date of publication for each issue nor the frequency of publication.
The Worker appears to have been published initially by radical syndicalists with links to the Communist Unity Groups of Nottingham City and County. In issue № 4 there is mentioned that "The Notts. Communist Unity Group have made our paper their official organ, but are not responsible for its finance." By issue № 5 the paper was renamed The Nottingham Worker, and openly labeled as the official organ of the Communist Unity Groups. Its editor was James Stewart. Sometime in 1920, the paper's publication was assumed by the Workers' Press Committee of the William Morris Institute in Nottingham, and its page number increased.
Number 3
To Mothers and Daughters, by Kate Stewart; In the Dawning, by Eliana Twynam;
Our Editorial; Our Readers Ought to Know; Local Advert; Letter from W. B. Symes,
Secretary, Electrical Trades Union, Cinema Operatives Branch, Dublin; City
Notes; From the Trenches
Number 4
War - What For?, by Iva Penn; Our Editorial - Communism or the Gilded Collar,
by Tom Bell; What is War?, by G. R. Kirkpatrick; Our Pledge; Langdon Davis on
Confiscation; A Vision, by Ingersoll; Anvil Sparks, by Iva Penn; Ex-Service
Men's Page.
Number 5 (Incomplete issue)
War - What For?; Our Editorial; The Soldier's Creed; Municipal Finance and the Worker; For You.
...
Number 6 (April 1920)
War - What For?; Our Editorial; Municipal Finance and the Worker, by George
Watts; Dean Inge on Miners; Speeding Up Production; Some House; Attention; An
Example for British Worker; The Communist Party.
Number 6 (8 October 1920)
Amalgamation and the Shop Stewards' Movement; Direct Action!; Labour
Organisations and Trade Union Directory; Independent Adult Working Class
Education; Who is Allowed to Vote in Soviet Russia; Capital and Labour; Those
Troublesome Miners Again; Public Notices; About Ourselves; The Miners' Struggle;
Who is the Duke; Fabianism in Russia; Municipal Finance and the Worker; A
Medical Report; Blind Workers Confer; Feed the Brutes; Guns for Coal Centres?;
Is War Holy?; The Co-Operative Movement and Politics; The Scandinavian
Elections; Industrial History, Essay 1; Some Coal Profits; International Notes
and Comments; "Democracy" in America; The Red T. U. International; Piece-Work in
India; Trade Union Control in Italy; Labour in Hungary;
[The scans provided above are thanks to The Internet Archive. We would welcome scans or transcriptions of additional issues.]