William X. O'Brien
William X. O'Brien (* 23. January 1881 in Clonakilty , County Cork , † 31 October 1968 ) was an Irish trade union functionary and politicians of the Irish Labor Party .
Life
O'Brien founded the Labor Party in 1912 with James Connolly and James Larkin as the political wing of the governing body of Irish trade unions, the Irish Trade Union Congress . In 1913 he became President of the Irish Trade Union Congress (ITUC) for the first time and as such played a key role in the so-called Dublin Lockout . After Larkin had emigrated to the United States in 1914 , he succeeded it as union leader and was first again President of the ITUC in 1918 and its General Secretary from 1918 to 1920.
In 1922 he was elected as a candidate for the Irish Labor Party in the constituency of Dublin South for the first time as a Member of Parliament ( Teachta Dála ) in the House of Commons ( Dáil Éireann ) , but suffered a defeat in the 1923 elections, so that he had to leave the House of Commons again. After Larkin returned to Ireland in April 1923, disagreements arose between him and O'Brien, which lasted more than twenty years and which also shaped the term of office of the Labor Party leader, William Norton . O'Brien finally officially took over the position of Secretary General of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union (ITGWU) from Larkin in 1924 and held this office until 1946. In addition, he was again President of the ITUC in 1925.
In the elections in June 1927 he was again elected Teachta Dála, but lost his mandate for the constituency Tipperary again in the general election in September 1927. He was last elected in July 1937 as a representative of the constituency Tipperary in the Dáil Éireann , divorced but again in the elections in May 1938 from the House of Commons. In 1941 he was finally President of the Irish Trade Union Congress for the fourth and last time .
In 1944 he resigned from the Irish Labor Party and the National Labor Party was founded .
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| SURNAME | O'Brien, William X. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish politician and trade unionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clonakilty , County Cork |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 31, 1968 |