Harry Douglass, Baron Douglass of Cleveland

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Harry Douglass, Baron Douglass of Cleveland (* 1. January 1902 in Middlesbrough , North Yorkshire , † 5. April 1978 ) was a British trade union functionary , the 1953-1967 general secretary of the Iron and Steel Workers' Union ( Iron and Steel Trades Confederation ) was and in 1967 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

After finishing school in 1912, Douglass began working as a steel smelter at the age of thirteen and shortly thereafter joined the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation as a member. In 1933 he was elected a member of the executive council of this union and, two years later, in 1935, took up a full-time activity as an organizer of this union.

After he became vice general secretary of the union in 1945, he succeeded Lincoln Evans as general secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation in 1953 and held this position for fourteen years until he was replaced by the previous treasurer of the Labor Party, Dai Davies in 1967.

Douglass, who was temporarily also President of the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF) and Chairman of the British Productivity Council, was elected President of the TUC at the trade union convention of the trade union umbrella organization Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton in 1967 as the successor to Joseph O'Hagan for a one-year term of office elected and held this office until his replacement by Lewis Wright, Baron Wright of Ashton-under-Lyne at the 1968 trade union day in Blackpool .

By a letters patent dated September 22, 1967, Douglass was elevated to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Douglass of Cleveland , of Cleveland in the County of Yorkshire, and thus belonged to the House of until his death Lords as a member. Its official launch ( Introduction ) in the House of Lords was carried out with the support of Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine and Harold Collison, Collison Baron on October 27, 1967th

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TUC: Details of Past Congresses ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 44378, HMSO, London, August 1, 1967, p. 8533 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
  3. ↑ entry . In: Hansard of October 27, 1967
personal data
SURNAME Douglass, Harry, Baron Douglass of Cleveland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglass, Harry, Baron Douglass of Cleveland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British union official
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Middlesbrough , North Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1978