William Carron, Baron Carron

William John Carron, Baron Carron KSG Kt FRSA (* 19th November 1902 in Kingston upon Hull , † 3. December 1969 in Forrest Hill , London ) was a British trade union functionary , politician of the Labor Party and business leaders , the 1956-1967 President the influential mechanical engineering union Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) and in 1967 when Life Peer became a member of the House of Lords under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

After attending the Roman Catholic Primary School in Kingston upon Hull, Carron completed an apprenticeship at Hull Technical College and then worked as a turner at Rose, Downs & Thompson Ltd. between 1918 and 1923 . active in Hull. He then worked as a journeyman at the company from 1923 and joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU) as a member in 1924 . He began his career as a trade union official in 1932 as secretary of the AEU branch in Hull and held this office until 1945.

In addition, Carron was full-time between 1935 and 1945 in the care and maintenance department of Reckitt & Coleman in Hull. During this time he was initially a shop steward for the AEU and then in 1941 a union representative in the company's works committee and district president of the AEU. In 1945 he began his full-time activity as a trade union official and was initially a division organizer of the AEU between 1945 and 1950. In the meantime, he also completed a course of study at the University of Oxford , which he completed with a Master of Arts (MA).

In 1950 Carron became a member of the Executive Council of the AEU and was also a member of the General Council of the umbrella organization of the trade unions TUC ( Trades Union Congress ) between 1954 and 1968 . In 1956 he was elected President of the AEU to succeed Robert Openshaw . Until 1967, the devout Catholic aligned the union to the right and anti-communist .

For his services Carron, who was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), was knighted by the Order of Gregorius in 1959 and a Knight Bachelor in 1963 , so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". In addition to his work as union chairman, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of England in 1963 and of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in 1967 .

Carron became a life peer with the title Baron Carron , of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull, through a letters patent dated July 11, 1967 , a member of the House of Lords, to which he belonged until his death. His successor as chairman of the AEU was the former communist and avowed Marxist Hugh Scanlon , who realigned the union accordingly.

Web links

• William Brown at Hansard (English)
• Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
• William John Carron, Baron Carron, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 11, 2016.
• The Papers of Lord Carron (JANUS)