Kammala wannan jumlar: Mahaifin Docherty ya shiga kungiyar Fife Communist Anarchist Group, kuma shi ma memba ne na kafa Jam'iyyar Kwaminis a Burtaniya. Docherty kanta ta shiga Jam'iyyar Kwaminis a lokacin da ta kai shekara 18, mafi ƙanƙanta a lokacin da ta iya yin haka, ba da daɗewa ba bayan da
1926 Babban yajin aikin Burtaniya. Da farko ta zama memba na Young Communist League, ko YCL. A lokacin yajin aikin, ta shiga cikin "Majalisun Yankin Ayyuka", waɗanda Soviet Soviet ta yi wahayi zuwa gare su, kuma sun taimaka wajen daidaita yajin aikin. Rashin nasarar ma'aikatan ma'adinai a cikin yajin aikin ya yi tasiri sosai a kanta. Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta ba ta ilimi na manya, a lokacin da ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin mata biyu tsakanin maza 48. Matar da take tare da ita a aji ita ce mahaifiyarta. Yayinda take matashiya, ta zama sakataren adabi na reshen Cowdenbeath na jam'iyyar, kuma tana da alhakin samarwa da sayar da wasu jaridu na mako-mako.