Archibald Duncan MacKellar was a

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, who served as president of the

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(STUC). MacKellar worked as a draughtsman at John Brown's shipyard in

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. In 1913, he was a founding members of the Glasgow branch of the

Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen The Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section (TASS) was a British trade union. History The union was founded in 1913 by 200 draughtsmen, as the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD). It expanded rapidly, and ...

(AESD). He rapidly became one of the union's leading figures, in 1918 chairing its committee on the Whitley Reports. He served on the union's executive committee for many years, and was president of the union for 1929-1930. In 1938, MacKellar was appointed as the AESD's full-time organiser for the London area, then later moved to cover Scotland and Northern Ireland. In this new role, he became prominent in the

, serving on its general council from 1947, as its fraternal delegate to the

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in 1951, and as its chair for 1952-1953. In the

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, MacKellar was made an

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.UK list: He retired in 1955.

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