[1] At this time Emile Burns was working for Cunard,[2] but was also serving on a national committee enquiring into poverty, which had been set up by Eleanor Rathbone, and which published Equal Pay and the Family: A Proposal for the National Endowment of Motherhood.
[1] The family moved to London sometime after April 1918 but prior to the end of World War I.
[1][4] Emile found work as the secretary of the Labour Research Department, except during the UK general strike, when he worked as propaganda secretary of the St Pancras Trades Council.
In the early 1950s, he did much of the preparation work for the party's new programme, the British Road to Socialism.
[5] Burns translated both political and non-political writings from Russian, France and German into English, including Friedrich Engels's Anti-Dühring, and parts of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value.