Harry Kershaw (trade unionist)
Harry C. Kershaw (1906 or 1907 – 3 June 1985) was a British trade unionist.
Kershaw worked as a cotton weaver and became active in the Colne Weavers' Association (CWA). He was elected as Assistant Secretary of the CWA in 1945. The CWA was a member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, and Kershaw was elected as its full-time Second Assistant Secretary in 1947, becoming Assistant Secretary in 1960, then General Secretary in September 1968, spending his first month working alongside Lewis Wright.[1] He retired in 1971.[2]
References
- ↑ Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.180
- ↑ Report of the 1985 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.390
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| Preceded by Lewis Wright |
General Secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association 1968 – 1971 |
Succeeded by Fred Hague |
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