Dan Milford

Daniel West Milford (3 December 1876[1] – 10 September 1950) was a Welsh trade unionist.

Born in Cardiff, Milford worked as a docker. He joined the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union around the turn of the century, and served as its president from 1913. The dockers' union became part of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and from 1929 Milford served as secretary of its Docks Group, soon additionally becoming secretary of the union's Waterways Group.[2]

Milford retired in 1941,[3] but remained involved with the industry, in 1943 serving on a committee investigating the handling of explosives by dockers.[4] He died in Essex in 1950.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1939 England and Wales Register
  2. 1 2 "Obituary: Dan W. Milford". Annual Report of the Trades Union Congress: 308. 1951.
  3. ↑ "In Brief". Manchester Guardian. 27 November 1941.
  4. ↑ "Dockers and Explosives". Manchester Guardian. 11 November 1943.
Trade union offices
Preceded by
James Wignall?		 President of the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Labourers' Union
1913–1922		 Succeeded by
Position abolished
Preceded by
Ernest Bevin		 National Secretary (Docks Group) of the Transport and General Workers' Union
1929–1941		 Succeeded by
Jack Donovan
Preceded by
Harry Gosling		 National Secretary (Waterways Group) of the Transport and General Workers' Union
1930–1941		 Succeeded by
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