Birmingham Trades Council is the trades council body which brings together trade unionists from across Birmingham, England. Its headquarters were formerly in Digbeth, with a huge mural above the canteen area depicting the 1972 Battle of Saltley Gate.

November 2007

Secretaries

Start of termSecretaryUnion[1]
1866Roger BatsonGeneral Union of Carpenters and Joiners
1867Robert McRaeUnited Kingdom Society of Coach Builders
1869William GilliverCordwainers
1878C. R. BowkettHouse Painters
1880J. T. HarlowTypographical Association
1881Ben ChurchTypographical Association
1885A. HaddletonFlint Glass Makers
1895S. G. MiddletonSchool Workers' Union
1898Arthur EadesAlliance Cabinet Makers' Association
1903J. E. BerryAmalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
1913J. KestertonTypographical Association
1919F. W. RudlandTypographical Association
1940C. G. SpraggPainters
1944Harry BakerDraughtsmen and Allied Technicians' Association
1966David PerrisTheatre and Cinema Workers
1983Mick RiceAmalgamated Engineering Union

Presidents

1869: Thomas Green[1]
1870:
1871: H. Giles[1]
1874:
1875: C. R. Bowkett[1]
1878: J. Lewis[1]
1880: Allan Grainger[1]
1887: John Valentine Stevens[1]
1889: Alfred Jephcott[1]
1892: C. C. Cooke[1]
1895: Arthur Eades[2]
1898: Henry Simpson
1899: Joseph Millington[1]
1902:
1904: W. J. Morgan[1]
1909:
1910: Joseph Kesterton
1912:
1914: E. E. Edwards[1]
1916: G. Stanway[1]
1917: F. W. Rudland[1]
1919: F. E. Willis[1]
1920: A. Shakespeare[1]
1921: A. P. Cassidy[1]
1922: H. G. Johnson[1]
1924:
1929: H. G. Johnson[1]
1933:
1937: C. G. Spragg[1]
1939: Walter Samuel Lewis
1942: Ernest Haynes[1]
1951: Bob Shorthouse[1]
1955: George Varnom[1]
1961: W. E. Jarvis[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Corbett, Birmingham (1966). The Birmingham Trades Council: 1866-1966. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
  2. ↑ David E. Martin, "Eades, Arthur", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.II, pp.131–132


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