Isaac Haig Mitchell was the first general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, when it was founded in 1899, a post he held until 1907 when he took up a position with the Board of Trade
Isaac Haig Mitchell in 1903
Isaac Haig Mitchell with Margaret Mitchell and their daughter in 1906
GFTU management committee 1901
English delegate to Canada and the United States. Mitchell portrait by Bassano in 1926 NPG, London.
The Socialist Labour Party was a socialist political party in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1903 as a splinter from the Social Democratic Federation by James Connolly, Neil Maclean and SDF
Isaac Mitchell (trade unionist)
…increases in the salaries of trade union leaders, and led initial investigations into the Clyde Workers' Committee, informing David Lloyd George that the Socialist Labour Party was centrally involved…
The British SLP adopted the familiar "arm and hammer" of its American namesake as its official logo.
Radical Irish labour leader James Connolly was an important figure in the formation of the British SLP.
The SLP was inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution and lost a group of its members to the new Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920.