Jack Owen (trade unionist)
- He should not be confused with Jack Owen (1887–1957) who was also a British trade unionist.[1]
Jack Owen (c.1890 – 22 October 1983) was a British trade unionist.
Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Owen worked as a blastfurnaceman in a foundry for twenty-five years. He joined the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades (NUB), and began working full-time for the union in 1937.[2]
In 1948, Owen was elected as general secretary of the NUB, and also to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1953,[2] and wrote Ironmen, a history of the union.[3]
Owen died at the age of 93 in 1983.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Compendium of Communist Biography, Graham Stevenson, extracted 9 Nov 2016
- ^ a b c Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1983 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.356
- ^ Jack Eaton and Colin Gill, Jack Eaton, Colin Gill, p.137