Harry Kershaw (trade unionist)

Harry C. Kershaw (1906 or 1907 3 June 1985) was a British trade unionist.

Kershaw worked as a cotton weaver and became active in the Colne Weavers' Association (CWA). He was elected as Assistant Secretary of the CWA in 1945. The CWA was a member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, and Kershaw was elected as its full-time Second Assistant Secretary in 1947, becoming Assistant Secretary in 1960, then General Secretary in September 1968, spending his first month working alongside Lewis Wright.[1] He retired in 1971.[2]

References

  1. Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.180
  2. Report of the 1985 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.390
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Lewis Wright
General Secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association
1968 1971
Succeeded by
Fred Hague
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