1 GENEALOGY OF AN AGITATOR AND HIS WIFE
THE ETHERIDGE LINEAGE
Richard Albert (Dick) Etheridge was a prominent communist and a giant in the shop stewards’ movement that re-emerged during and after the Second World War; a powerful movement that owes a great deal to his imagination, determination and qualities of leadership. He was a figure who emerged from the obscurity of his father’s catering business into a world of celebrity on the national and international stage, primarily through the vagaries associated with a congenital heart condition and the directed labour schemes of the wartime Coalition Government of Winston Churchill………………