correction: it was only the Unemployed Workers' *Movement* they objected to. The Unemployed Workers Union was their (smaller) approved union. unfortunately I have not slept and I have been reading about the far more militant 1980s UWU all day. https://twitter.com/AsFarce/status/1295569447952904192

there are also a lot of references to things like councils/delegations of the unemployed, organising the unemployed, a union for the unemployed, with or without a Proper Name for the Union, and frankly sometimes people misremembered which org was named what. not me though

i'm going to have to set up a trotwatching guide for 50s-80s unemployed workers' unions. there were a lot of them!

I suspect that a lot of the organisations I read about in Tribune in particular (the Communist Party paper) were more like "successful first meetings" than true organisations... there is, some would say, a bit of a propaganda function afoot