Harry Brotherton

Henry George Brotherton was a British trade union leader.

Born in London, Brotherton completed an apprenticeship as a sheet metal worker. He joined the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers in the final year of his apprenticeship, the earliest point at which he was eligible to do so. He was elected to the executive of the London District in 1923, serving a single year, and during the 1926 UK general strike, took the lead on paying benefits to union members in North London. He was re-elected to the district executive in 1927, and then in 1929 became the union's full-time London District Secretary.[1][2]

Brotherton also served on his union's National Executive Committee, and in 1934/35 was its General President.[1][2] During World War II, he served on several government committees,[2] and in 1941 he was elected as the union's Assistant General Secretary.[3] Two years later, he became the union's General Secretary.[2] He also served as President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions from 1948 until 1958,[2][4] served on the Railway Shopmen's National Council, Engineering Advisory Council, and chaired the Gas Industry Negotiating Committee for Craftsmen.[2]

In the 1949 New Year Honours, Brotherton was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Fishman, Nina; Campbell, Alan; McIlroy, John (1999). British Trade Unions and Industrial Politics, 1945-79. Ashgate. p. 263. ISBN 075460019X.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "[untitled article]". Sheet Metal Industries. 27: 558. 1950.
  3. ↑ Kidd, Archibald T. (1949). History of the Tin-plate Workers and sheet metal Workers and Braziers Societies. London: National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers. p. 295.
  4. ↑ Mortimer, J. E. (1960). A history of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen. London: MacGibbon & Kee. p. 411.
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Archibald T. Kidd		 Assistant General Secretary of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers
1941–1943		 Succeeded by
E. Roberts
Preceded by
Archibald T. Kidd		 General Secretary of the National Union of Sheet Metal Workers and Braziers
1943–1960		 Succeeded by
E. Roberts
Preceded by
Mark Hodgson		 President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
1948–1958		 Succeeded by
Wilfred Beard
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