Hugh+Scanlon+&+Jack+Jones

=**__Hugh Scanlon + Jack Jones__**= Scanlon was born in Melbourne, Australia to British parents who had emigrated. His father died when Scanlon was 2 years old, and his mother moved the family back to Britain. Scanlon joined the Communist Party of GB in 1937, and rose in the union to a district official in 1947. He left the party in 1954 but carried on with his socialist ideas as a candidate within the union and won the leadership in 1968.

Jones was born in Garston, Liverpool. He left school at 14 and worked as an engineering apprentice. Jack Jones was converted to socialism by reading "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropis" by Robert Tressel. He became a member of the TGWU (Transport and General Workers Union), and was elected shop steward, and then a delegate on the National Docks Group Committee.

Scanlon and Jones were known as "The Terrible Twins", because of their opposition to both the Labour and Conservative Party attempts to control the unions power. Harold Wilson famously told them to "get your tanks off my lawn".