Trade Union Ancestors

TUC Parliamentary Committee (later known as the General Council) in 1916. Front row, l-r: J E Williams (railwaymen), W Mullin (cotton operatives), W J Davies (vice-chair), H Gosling (chair), C W Bowermen (secretary), J Hill (boilermakers), W Thorne (gasworkers). Back row: G H Stuart-Bunning (postmen's federation), T A Flynn (tailors), H Skinner (typographical association), James Sexton (dock labourers), W Mosses (Patternmakers), H Smith (miners' federation), F Bramley (furnishing trades), W J Bolton (clerk), J Jenkins (shipwrights), J W Ogden (weavers).
From: Souvenir of the Forty-Eighth Annual Trade Union Congress, Held at Birmingham, September 1916.