Sir Arthur Leonard Williams (22 January 1904 – 27 December 1972) was a British politician who was General Secretary of the Labour Party during the 1960s.

Early life

Born in

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in 1904, he began working on the steam engines of the railway as a boy, doing the dirty jobs of cleaning out the ashes and the boilers on the engines. He became involved in the union movement after

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, rising through various positions to attain the position of General Secretary of the British Labour Party. After retiring from that post he was knighted and appointed

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