biography
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| lived:
| (1904–79)
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| biography:
| Trade union leader, born in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, NW England, UK. Having left school at 12, he won a trade-union sponsored scholarship to Oxford, where he graduted with honours in philosophy and political economy (1933). He was a civil servant (1934–6) before joining the research and economic department of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), where he became assistant general secretary (1947–60) and general secretary (1960–9). He sat on several royal commissions, including the Donovan Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (1965–8). After retiring from the TUC he was chairman of the Commission on Industrial Relations (1969–71). |
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