Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson

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Thomas "Tom" Williamson, Baron Williamson CBE JP (* 2 September 1897 ; † 27. February 1983 ) was a British trade union functionary and politician of the Labor Party , the nearly three years Member of the House of Commons was as well in 1962 as a Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Williamson was in the lower house election on July 5, 1945 elected as a candidate of the Labor Party deputy to the House of Commons and represented in this up to his mandate renunciation and the subsequent by-election ( by-election ) on 1 March 1948 constituency Brigg .

In 1946, as the successor of Charles Dukes secretary general of the Union of General and Municipal Workers ( National Union of General and Municipal Workers ) and has held this function for one of the biggest British trade unions until his replacement by Jack Cooper 1961. As such, he was a member of the Council the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the governing body of trade unions in Great Britain. In this role, he called on the Labor government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to exercise greater government influence over certain consumer goods in order to better cope with the supply crisis at the time. At that time he was one of the most influential trade union officials in Great Britain, alongside the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU ), Arthur Deakin , and Will Lawther , President of the NUM ( National Union of Mineworkers ), and thus largely determined the course the TUC with.

During this time he acted as the successor to Wilfred Blackwell Beard between 1957 and his replacement by Tom Yates as President of the TUC.

Most recently, Williamson, both Commander of the Order of the British Empire and magistrate ( Justice of the Peace ), was by a Letters Patent of 15 May 1962 as a Life Peer with the title Baron Williamson , of Eccleston in the Borough of St. Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster, raised to the nobility and was a member of the House of Lords until his death.

Background literature

  • Gerald Allen Dorfman: British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress. Palgrave Macmillan, 1983, ISBN 0-8179-7811-9 , p. 34.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ TUC Plan For Control In Foods . In: The Sidney Morning Herald . September 7, 1951.
  2. ↑ In the Cause of Labor (Chapter 18): Business (Unionism) as usual.
  3. ↑ Tony Cliff, Colin Barker: Revolt of the Workers. VI. The dead weight of the bureaucracy: the increasing centralization of the trade unions.
  4. ↑ Details of past TUC-Congresses ( Memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 34 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Williamson, Tom, Baron Williamson
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Williamson, Thomas, Baron Williamson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Labor politician, Member of the House of Commons and trade union official
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1897
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1983