Tom Williamson, Baron Williamson

Thomas " Tom" Williamson, Baron Williamson of Eccleston in the Borough of St. Helens in the County Palatine of Lancaster CBE JP ( * September 2, 1897, † 27 February 1983) was a British trade union official and Labour Party politician, who almost three years with a Member of the House of Commons in 1962 as a Life peer and was due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was.

Life

Williamson was elected in the general election on July 5, 1945 as a Labour candidate for the Members in the House of Commons and represented in this up to his mandate waiver and the subsequent by-election ( By-election ) on March 1, 1948 constituency brig.

In 1946, he was the successor of Charles Dukes General Secretary of the General and community workers ( National Union of General and Municipal Workers ) and held this function in one of the UK's largest trade unions to his replacement by Jack Cooper in 1961. As such, he was a member of the Council of the trades Union Congress (TUC ), the umbrella organization of trade unions in Britain. In this function, he called on the Labour government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee to pursue stronger state influence on certain consumer goods in order to better cope with the then supply crisis. At this time he was next to the General Secretary of the Transport Workers Union TGWU ( Transport and General Workers ' Union), Arthur Deakin, and Will Lawther, president of the Bergarbeitergewerkschft NUM ( National Union of Mineworkers ), the most influential trade union officials of Great Britain and certain thus significantly the course the TUC.

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

Most recently, Williamson, who was both a Commander of the Order of the British Empire as well as Justice of the Peace ( Justice of the Peace ), by Letters Patent dated 15 May 1962 as a life peer with the title Baron Williamson of Eccleston in the Borough of St. Helen raised in the County Palatine of Lancaster to the peerage and thus belonged to until his death in the House of Lords as a member.

Background literature

  • Gerald Allen Dorfman: British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress, p.34, 1983, ISBN 0817978119
  • Presidents of the Trades Union Congress, 2010, ISBN 9781155258799
  • Members of the General Council of the TUC, 2010, ISBN 9781155854465
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