Catalogue description George ALLISON: British. ALLISON, latterly National Industrial Organiser of the...

George ALLISON: British. ALLISON, latterly National Industrial Organiser of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was a Scottish miner who in the 1920s was the British representative on the Executive of the Red Trade Union International in Moscow and of the PROFINTERN. In 1931, in the wake of the Invergordon Mutiny, he was arrested and later imprisoned for inciting RN sailors to mutiny. Evidence on the file suggests that in the 1930s he was involved in undercover work for the Communist Party linked to espionage