biography
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Horner, Arthur Lewis
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1968)
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| biography:
| Political activist and trade unionist, born in Merthyr Tydfil, S Wales, UK. He worked in a Rhondda coalmine, was a founder-member of the British Communist Party, and stood unsuccessfully for parliament a number of times. He was elected president of the South Wales miners' union in 1936, and general secretary of the National Union in 1946. |
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