Transport House

Transport House was the name for a London located on Smith Square and Dean Bradley Street building during its use in the 20th century by various British trade unions and the Labour Party, which it served as headquarters.

Namesake was from 1928 to the Transport and General Workers ' Union (T & G Transport Workers Union ), for the reversed "Transport House " became the metonym, as well as for the Labour Party Headquarters until 1980. Galt it in 1953 for Prince Philip as a member of the British royal family pay a visit to the trade unions, was transporting the House selected for this place.

In the post-war German history the house had a certain importance, as there the German language was recognized as the international language of the conference by the contributions of two trade unionists at the meeting of the "labor organizations of all Marshall Plan countries" in the spring of 1948. Limited to listening to a few weeks previously had three members of the SPD, who had in the Transport House for 15 years, participated for the first time " as a representative of a legal German party in an international conference ."

Critical mention was the headquarters of the Labour Party in the German press in the fall of 1964, when in an article about the major British parties, the Conservatives were praised at first, because " their Central Office in London's Smith Square from the transport opposite a few steps of the House differs Labour Party as an expensive business equipment from a shop for bargain purchases, where you stumble across all sorts of junk, including the remains of a class struggle socialism. "

Thirty years after the discontinuation of Transport House as Labour Office still had to function as a metonym. Did the Conservatives their political opponents accuse a relapse into the mind of a socialist nostalgia of the 1970s, they did so with the exclamation: "Welcome to Transport House! "