Joseph Thomas Price (9 October 1902 – 1 February 1973) was a British
trade union
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Pendlebury
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,
Lancashire
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, the son of William Price, a coalminer, and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at St Peter's School, Swinton and
Salford Grammar School
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.'Obituary: Mr Tom Price, Labour MP for Westhoughton', ''The Times'', 2 February 1973.
He became chief legal officer of the
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
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in 1921, and was the secretary of both the Eccles Division Parliamentary Labour Party and the Swinton and Pendlebury Trades and Labour Council.'The Westhoughton By-Election, No Hint Of Third Candidate', ''The Times'', 5 June 1951, p. 3. He married Muriel Anna Wilcock in 1933, and they had two children.
In 1951, Rhys Davies, the Labour
Member of Parliament
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for
Westhoughton
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Lake District
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and
Pennines
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