"We know that you, the organised workers of the country, are our friends ... As for the rest, they do not matter a tinker's cuss."
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Trade union conference 7 May 1947
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Emanuel Shinwell
Emanuel 'Manny' Shinwell, Baron Shinwell (October 18 1884 Spitalfields - 8 May 1986) was an English Labour politician who served as the MP for Linlithgowshire from 1922 to 1924 and from 1928 to 1931, MP for Seaham Harbour from 1935 to 1950 and MP for Easington from 1950 to 1970, when he was elevated to the peerage.
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