Arthur Pugh

Arthur Pugh (born January 19, 1870 in Ross-on-Wye , † August 2, 1955 ) was a British trade unionist.

Life and activity

After attending school and briefly training with a farmer, Pugh began working in the steel industry. He started early on in the British Steel Scmelters' Amalgamated Association, in which he finally became a full-time official in 1890 as Local Secretary: in 1901 he moved to Fordingham in Lincolnshire , where he became first assistant secretary and then office manager of the 1906 The steel smelters union was (until 1917).

In 1917, Pugh was instrumental in founding the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (ISTC), of which he was appointed first general secretary. He held this post for eighteen years until 1935.

During the Great General Strike of British Workers of 1926, Pugh served as President of the Trade Union Congress, and in that capacity negotiated with the government to settle the strike. He was a member of the trade union congress from 1920 to 1936.

In addition, Pugh was a member of the economic consultative committee of the League of Nations and the supervisory board of the Daily Herald newspaper .

Fonts

• Wage Fixing , 1929.
• Men of Steel, by one of them. A Chronicle of Eightyeight Years of Trade Unionism in the British Iron and Steel Industry , London 1951.

literature

• Hugh Armstron Clegg / Alan Fox / AF Thompson: A History of British Trade Unions Since 1889: 1911-1933 , 1985, p. 578.