Birmingham Trades Council

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Birmingham Trades Council is the trades council body which brings together trade unionists from across Birmingham, England. Its headquarters were formerly in Digbeth, with a huge mural above the canteen area depicting the 1972 Battle of Saltley Gate.

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November 2007

Secretaries

Start of termSecretaryUnion [1]
1866Roger Batson General Union of Carpenters and Joiners
1867Robert McRae United Kingdom Society of Coach Builders
1869William GilliverCordwainers
1878C. R. BowkettHouse Painters
1880J. T. Harlow Typographical Association
1881Ben Church Typographical Association
1885A. HaddletonFlint Glass Makers
1895S. G. MiddletonSchool Workers' Union
1898 Arthur Eades Alliance Cabinet Makers' Association
1903J. E. Berry Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
1913J. Kesterton Typographical Association
1919F. W. Rudland Typographical Association
1940C. G. SpraggPainters
1944Harry Baker Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians' Association
1966David PerrisTheatre and Cinema Workers
1983Mick Rice Amalgamated Engineering Union

Presidents

1869: Thomas Green [1]
1870:
1871: H. Giles [1]
1874:
1875: C. R. Bowkett [1]
1878: J. Lewis [1]
1880: Allan Grainger [1]
1887: John Valentine Stevens [1]
1889: Alfred Jephcott [1]
1892: C. C. Cooke [1]
1895: Arthur Eades [2]
1898: Henry Simpson
1899: Joseph Millington [1]
1902:
1904: W. J. Morgan [1]
1909:
1910: Joseph Kesterton
1912:
1914: E. E. Edwards [1]
1916: G. Stanway [1]
1917: F. W. Rudland [1]
1919: F. E. Willis [1]
1920: A. Shakespeare [1]
1921: A. P. Cassidy [1]
1922: H. G. Johnson [1]
1924:
1929: H. G. Johnson [1]
1933:
1937: C. G. Spragg [1]
1939: Walter Samuel Lewis
1942: Ernest Haynes [1]
1951: Bob Shorthouse [1]
1955: George Varnom [1]
1961: W. E. Jarvis [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Corbett, Birmingham (1966). The Birmingham Trades Council: 1866-1966. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
  2. ↑ David E. Martin, "Eades, Arthur", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.II, pp.131–132


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