George Hicks

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Ernest George Hicks (born May 13, 1879 in Vernhams Dean , Hampshire , † July 19, 1954 ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ) and union leader.

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Hicks began working as a bricklayer in 1890. In June 1904 he was one of the three founders of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, along with the masons Jack Fitzgerald and FK Cadman . He resigned from this party on August 20, 1904 and rejoined it on December 14, 1908, before finally leaving around 1910.

In 1912, Hicks became head of the Operative Bricklayers' Society (OBS), the national advocacy group for bricklayers. From 1919 to 1921 he held the post of Secretary General of this organization. In that year he took over the newly created office of General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Building Trade Workers , the successor organization to the OBS, which he held for twenty years, from 1921 to 1941.

In 1926, Hicks participated in organizing the nationwide general strike that year.

From 1921 to 1941 Hicks was a member of the Council of the British Trades Union Congress Trade Union Congress (TUC). From 1926 to 1927 he served as President of the Trade Union Congress for a few months.

In a by-election for the British Parliament in 1931, Hicks was elected to the House of Commons , the British Parliament, as the Labor Party candidate in the constituency of Woolwich East . His mandate was confirmed in the 1935, 1945 and 1949 elections. He resigned from parliament in 1950, so that he was a member of the House of Commons for a total of nineteen years. In parliament he was a member of the Central Housing Advisory Committee and the Holidays with Pay Committee. He was also a member of the Anglo-Russian Parliamentary Committee.

From 1941 to 1945, Hicks was a member of the Churchill government as Parliamentary Secretary to the Secretary of Labor.

family

Hicks was married to Kate Louisa Bennett.

Fonts

  • Preface to The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. 1927.
  • Poverty from Plenty. Social Democratic Federation, 1933.
  • The Chaos Produced by Capitalism.
  • The Future of the Workers' Clubs.

literature

  • Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died. 1961.
personal data
SURNAME Hicks, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hicks, Ernest George (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor Party politician and union leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Vernhams Dean , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1954