Alfred Allen, Baron Allen of Fallowfield

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Alfred "Alf" Walter Henry Allen Baron Allen of Fallowfield CBE (* 7. July 1914 in Bristol , † 14. January 1985 ) was a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , the 1962-1979 general secretary of the trade union USDAW ( Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers ) as well as was president of the trade union umbrella organization Trades Union Congress (TUC) in 1974 and became a member of the House of Lords in 1974 as Life Peer under the Life Peerages Act .

Life

After attending the East Bristol School, Allen worked for the Bristol Cooperative Society until 1940 and then joined the Royal Air Force (RAF), where he served until the end of World War II in 1945 and was finally promoted to sergeant . After the end of the war, in 1945 he became the organizer of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers , which in 1947 merged with the National Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen and Clerks (NUSAWC ) to form the shops' union -, distribution and related workers USDAW ( Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers ) united. In 1951 he became an employee of the national administration of this union.

In 1962, Allen succeeded Alan Birch as Secretary General of the USDAW and held that position for seventeen years until he was succeeded by Bill Whatley in 1979. In this position he also influenced the Labor Party government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson between 1964 and 1970 . For his services to the labor movement , he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire on June 2, 1967 .

On the Trade Union Congress of the TUC in 1974 in Brighton was Allen, who already long-standing member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, was elected to succeed Joseph Crawford for a one-year term as president of the TUC and held that post until his replacement by Marie Patterson on the Union Day 1975 in Blackpool . He then succeeded Sidney Greene as chairman of the TUC Economic Committee ( TUC Economic Committee ) until the late 1970s .

By a letters patent dated July 10, 1974, Allen was raised to the nobility under the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Allen of Fallowfield , of Fallowfield in Greater Manchester, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death Member at.

In 1977 he became governor of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and held that position for five years until 1982.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44326, HMSO, London, June 2, 1967, p. 6277 ( PDF , accessed October 26, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ TUC: Details of Past Congresses ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version; PDF; 34 kB)
  3. ↑ Gerald Allen Dorfman: British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress , 1983, ISBN 0-81797-811-9 , pp. 55, 87
  4. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 46310, HMSO, London, June 7, 1974, p. 6793 ( PDF , accessed October 26, 2013, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 46352, HMSO, London, September 24, 1974, p. 7918 ( PDF , accessed October 26, 2013, English).
  6. ↑ Full List of Boards of Governors of the BBC ( Memento from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 32 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Allen, Alfred, Baron Allen of Fallowfield
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen, Alfred Walter Henry, Baron Allen of Fallowfield (full name); Allen, Alf (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician and union official
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1985