Civil war show opened by Jack

Sep 3 2008 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

JACK JONES, the great Liverpool trade union leader, will tomorrow open an exhibition dedicated to the men who served in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.

About 160 of them, including the young Jones, were from Liverpool. Thirty were killed in the conflict, in which the elected Republicans were finally crushed by the Fascists supported by Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, as a prelude to World War II.

The Civil War devastated Spain from July 17, 1936, to April 1, 1939, ending with the victory of the rebels and the founding of a dictatorship led by General Franco.

The exhibition runs for a month at the Liverpool People’s Centre, 50-54 Mount Pleasant.

Accompanying 95-year-old Jack will be his son, Mick – the artist, whose work has included magnificent posters of the Spanish Civil War.

Jack went on to become general secret- ary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and he is honor- ary life president of the National Pensioners’ Convention.

Details of the exhibition available from Margaret Farrell on 0151 709 3995.