biography
| name: |
Clynes, Joseph Robert
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pronunciation:
[kliynz]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1869–1949)
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| biography:
| Trade unionist and British statesman, born in Oldham, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He worked in a cotton mill from the age of 10 and educated himself. Organizer of the Lancashire Gasworkers' Union (1891), he was president (1892) and secretary (1894–1912) of Oldham's Trade Council. He entered parliament (1910) for the Labour Party, and became food controller (1918), vice-chairman (1922), and Lord Privy Seal in Britain's first Labour cabinet (1924). |
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