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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[edit]

Start of term Secretary Union[1]
1866 Roger Batson General Union of Carpenters and Joiners
1867 Robert McRae United Kingdom Society of Coach Builders
1869 William Gilliver Cordwainers
1878 C. R. Bowkett House Painters
1880 J. T. Harlow Typographical Association
1881 Ben Church Typographical Association
1885 A. Haddleton Flint Glass Makers
1895 S. G. Middleton School Workers' Union
1898 Arthur Eades Alliance Cabinet Makers' Association
1903 J. E. Berry Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers
1913 J. Kesterton Typographical Association
1919 F. W. Rudland Typographical Association
1940 C. G. Spragg Painters
1944 Harry Baker Draughtsmen and Allied Technicians' Association
1966 David Perris Theatre and Cinema Workers
1983 Mick Rice Amalgamated Engineering Union

Presidents[edit]

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]

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Corbett, Birmingham (1966). The Birmingham Trades Council: 1866-1966. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
  • ^ David E. Martin, "Eades, Arthur", Dictionary of Labour Biography, vol.II, pp.131–132

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