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Joseph N. Bell
Joseph Nicholas Bell (7 March 1864 – 17 December 1922) was a British Labour politician and Justice of the Peace. He was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle East in the 1922 General Election, but died a month later. For many years Bell was General Secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour. In 1896, Bell married Florence Harrison, a teacher and prominent Independent Labour Party activist. He was first selected in 1914 as Labour candidate for Leith Burghs to contest the by-election when he came third. In 1918 he was selected for the Edinburgh seat of Leith, but was replaced later that year. He was then selected by the Labour Party to fight the Newcastle East constituency at the 1922 General Election. Already ill, he was unable to travel from London to campaign in the seat, but was elected in his absence,''The Times'', 18 Dec. 1922 defeating the Coalition Liberal MP, Harry Barnes. Bell died a month after his election, aged 58, and thus became one of only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Nicholas Bell
Joseph Nicholas Bell (7 March 1864 – 17 December 1922) was a British Labour politician and Justice of the Peace. He was elected Member of Parliament for Newcastle East in the 1922 General Election, but died a month later. For many years Bell was General Secretary of the National Amalgamated Union of Labour. In 1896, Bell married Florence Harrison, a teacher and prominent Independent Labour Party activist. He was first selected in 1914 as Labour candidate for Leith Burghs to contest the by-election when he came third. In 1918 he was selected for the Edinburgh seat of Leith, but was replaced later that year. He was then selected by the Labour Party to fight the Newcastle East constituency at the 1922 General Election. Already ill, he was unable to travel from London to campaign in the seat, but was elected in his absence,''The Times'', 18 Dec. 1922 defeating the Coalition Liberal MP, Harry Barnes. Bell died a month after his election, aged 58, and thus became one of only a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Davis
William John Davis Order of the Companions of Honour, CH (6 August 1848–20 October 1934) was a British people, British trade unionist. Born in Birmingham, Davis began working in a brass foundry. In 1869, he represented his local reform organisation at the Trades Union Congress. In 1871, he was a founder member of the Amalgamated Brassworkers Society, becoming its first general secretary.Davis, William John , ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Davis proved an effective secretary, increasing membership to 6,000 within a year. He was also active in the local Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party, and in 1876 was elected to the school board, then in 1880, he became the first Liberal-Labour (UK), Liberal-Labour member of Birmingham City Council. In 1883, he stood down from the union to become a factory inspector. Under ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chairs Of The Labour Party (UK)
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UK MPs 1922–1923
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Labour Party (UK) MPs For English Constituencies
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1922 Deaths
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1864 Births
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine ''H. L. Hunl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Shackleton
Sir David James Shackleton (21 November 1863 – 1 August 1938) was a cotton worker and trade unionist who became the third Labour Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, following the formation of the Labour Representation Committee. He later became a senior civil servant. Shackleton was born in Cloughfold near Rawtenstall, Lancashire. He became a cotton worker at the age of nine. He rose through the ranks of the cotton weavers' union and became general secretary of the Textile Factory Workers Association. He was a member of the Darwen Town Council, and member of the Blackburn Chamber of Commerce. Although the textile workers had not yet joined the LRC, Shackleton was appointed its candidate for the Clitheroe by-election in 1902. Philip Snowden, who had been considered by the Independent Labour Party, withdrew from the race. The Liberals and Conservatives also withdrew, sensing Shackleton's strong lead. He was thus elected unopposed on 1 August 1902. The textile worker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Mosses
William Mosses (1858 – 17 May 1943) was a British trade unionist. Mosses was elected as general secretary of the United Patternmakers Association in 1884, and served in the post for 33 years. He supported Robert Knight's initiative to found the Federation of Engineering and Shipbuilding Trades, a loose body bringing together a variety of craft unions, and he served as its first general secretary, from 1890.Trades Union Congress, ''Report of the 1943 Annual Congress'', p.156 Mosses was also active in the Trades Union Congress (TUC); he served on its Parliamentary Committee from 1907 to 1911, and again from 1913 until 1917. In 1905, he was the TUC delegate to the American Federation of Labour The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual .... Mosses resigned all his tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gilmour (trade Unionist)
David R. Gilmour (1861 – September 1926) was a Scottish trade unionist. Born at Joppa in Ayrshire, Gilmour worked there as a coal miner before moving to Hamilton in Lanarkshire to find new employment in the industry. He found work at the Old Eddlewood Colliery, where he was soon elected as checkweighman and was a leading founder member of the Lanarkshire Miners' County Union (LMCU). He remained involved with union while transferring to work at nearby Bent Colliery, then, when the LMCU decided to appoint a full-time secretary, he was elected to the post, serving for more than twenty years. He also served on the executive of the Scottish Miners' Federation for much of the period."Mr David Gilmour", ''Glasgow Herald'', 13 September 1926, p.11 Gilmour was active in the wider labour movement, and stood unsuccessfully for the Scottish Workers Representation Committee at the 1906 general election in Falkirk Burghs. However, the following year, he was elected to Hamilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Gee
Allen Gee (6 September 1852 – 12 August 1939) was a British trade unionist and politician. Professional background Gee worked in the woolen industry in Huddersfield, and was involved in a major, but unsuccessful, strike in 1883. This experience inspired him to found what became the General Union of Textile Workers, with membership from the wider district. In 1885, he was elected as the first president of the Huddersfield Trades Council. He was a strong supporter of the Weavers' campaign for an eight-hour day, launched in 1886, and was involved in the Manningham Mills Strike. In 1888, he was elected as General Secretary of the West Yorkshire Power-Loom Weavers Association (later to become the Textile Workers), a position which he held until 1922. Hugh Armstrong Clegg, ''A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889: 1889-1910'', p.184 Unions Gee attended the founding conference of the Independent Labour Party. He was soon elected as an independent labor member of Huddersf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Federation Of Labour
The American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) was a national federation of labor unions in the United States that continues today as the AFL-CIO. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1886 by an alliance of craft unions eager to provide mutual support and disappointed in the Knights of Labor. Samuel Gompers was elected the full-time president at its founding convention and reelected every year, except one, until his death in 1924. He became the major spokesperson for the union movement. The A.F. of L. was the largest union grouping, even after the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) by unions that were expelled by the A.F. of L. in 1935. The Federation was founded and dominated by craft unions. especially the building trades. In the late 1930s craft affiliates expanded by organizing on an industrial union basis to meet the challenge from the CIO. The A.F. of L. and CIO competed bitterly in the late 1930s, but then cooperated during World War II and afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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