Transport House

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Transport House

Transport House was the name given to one in London at Smith Square located and Dean Bradley Street building during its use in the 20th century by various British unions and the Labor Party , who served as headquarters.

It was named after the Transport and General Workers' Union (T&G) from 1928 , for which, conversely, “Transport House” became a metonym , as well as for the Labor Party headquarters until 1980. In 1953, Prince Philip was a member of the British royal family To visit the unions, Transport House was the chosen location.

The house had a certain significance in German post-war history when, in the spring of 1948, the German language was recognized again as the international conference language through the contributions of two trade unionists at the meeting of the “workers' organizations of all Marshall Plan countries”. A few weeks earlier, three SPD members who had participated in the Transport House for the first time in 15 years "as representatives of a legal German party in an international conference" had limited themselves to listening .

The Headquarters of the Labor Party received critical mention in the German press in the autumn of 1964, when the Conservatives were first praised in an article about the major British parties, because “their Central Office in London's Smith Square differs from the Transport House just a few steps across Labor Party like an expensive outfitting shop for a bargain shop, in which one stumbles over all sorts of junk, including the remains of a class struggle socialism. "

Thirty years after Transport House ceased to be Labor headquarters, the function was still a metonym. If the conservatives wanted to accuse their political opponent of relapsing into the spirit of the socialist nostalgia of the 1970s, they did so with the exclamation: "Welcome to Transport House!"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [o. V.]: Philip , in: Der Spiegel No. 26/1953, p. 29 [1]
  2. ↑ [o. V.]: Sons , in: Der Spiegel No. 11/1948 [2]
  3. ↑ [o. V.]: Close contact , in: Der Spiegel No. 3/1948 [3]
  4. ↑ Dieter Schröder : Who should clear out the kingdom? , in: Der Spiegel No. 42/1964 [4]
  5. ↑ Ann Treneman: Cry havoc - and let slip the meerkat , in: The Sunday Times , March 17, 2010 [5]

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 44 "  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 37"  W.