new.leader.record

Corporate background:

Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt, who notes that this label was recorded by Pathé for the socialist newspaper ‘Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,’ and usually featured speeches by high-profile British socialist MPs; it could only be bought by mail order.

The audacious 1917 hijacking of Russia by the Bolsheviks had captured the sympathetic imagination of many British unionists and intellectuals, who also began working for the dream of worldwide communism.


	New Leader Record (England) / 1927




	Corporate background: Label scan courtesy of UK music researcher and collector Bill Dean-Myatt, who notes that this label was recorded by Pathé for the socialist newspaper ‘Lansbury’s Labour Weekly,’ and usually featured speeches by high-profile British socialist MPs; it could only be bought by mail order. The audacious 1917 hijacking of Russia by the Bolsheviks had captured the sympathetic imagination of many British unionists and intellectuals, who also began working for the dream of worldwide communism.				Design: Featuring Pegasus, the powerful winged horse of Greek mythology, perhaps to suggest divine messages being brought from the gods.




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