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Margaret Hunter

After five years as the Communist Party’s Scottish organiser, Margaret Hunter was appointed the National Women’s Organiser in 1963, at the age of 40.
 
She was to particularly focus the Party’s work towards women’s rights and equal pay.
 
The Party’s parliamentary candidate for the Glasgow Gorbals seat in 1964 and 1966, before serious illness led her to retire in the early 1970s.
 
She was married to Jimmy Hunter, who had led the Clyde apprentices’ committee in 1940-41.
 
Margaret Hunter died in the late 1980s.