National Council of Action

The National Council of Action was an organisation established on 5 August 1920 by the Labour movement in the United Kingdom to forestall the involvement of the British Empire in another war in 1920. Ernest Bevin had heard that the Royal Navy had dispatched ships to Helsingfors and the Black Sea equipped for war. Bevin arranged a meeting with Charles Bowerman and Arthur Henderson in order to establish a Council of Action.[1] Fred Bramley, Jim Middleton and H. S. Lindsay were appointed as joint secretaries.[2]

References
  1. Bevin, Ernest (1920). "Ernest Bevin at Woolwich : Startling Criticism of Lloyd George". The Dockers' record : a monthly report of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. VI No. 6 (October 1920): 6–11.
  2. Bramley, F.; Middleton, J. S.; Lindsay, H. S. (1920). Form your Councils of Action!. London: Nation Council of Action.
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