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Albert Winfield

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and he became a leading figure in the Vestry Employees' Union, working with John Piper to build the branch up to 200 members. However, they became unhappy with the union leadership, and broke away in 1894, forming the Battersea Vestry Employees' Labour Union.
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was dismissed by the committee, and it proposed either Tevenan or Winfield as his replacement. Winfield decided to stand aside, and was instead appointed as secretary of the union's London district.
67:. He remained on the council for the rest of his life, pioneering a scheme in which 1,000 poor children from the borough were taken on a day out at the seaside. He unsuccessfully contested 281: 87: 68: 45:, touring the country in order to recruit members outside London. He also became the chair of the union's executive committee. In 1907, general secretary 286: 90:, and Winfield continued as an organiser for the union. He began suffering with poor health at the end of 1931, and in February he committed suicide. 276: 80: 76: 72: 41:(MEA), and Winfield was appointed as one of the union's first full-time organisers. Two years later, he worked with Richard Davies and 38: 210: 135: 60: 271: 296: 291: 167: 53: 160:
Builders of the Borough: a century of achievement by Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council from 1894 to 1994
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In 1900, the Battersea Vestry Employees merged into the London-wide
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Index

British
trade unionist
Battersea Vestry
Municipal Employees' Association
Peter Tevenan
Albin Taylor
Battersea Trades Council
Battersea Council
Labour Party
Battersea South
1922
1923
1924 United Kingdom general elections
National Union of General and Municipal Workers


GMB @ Work
ISBN
9781901268614
ISBN
0952241900


ISBN
978-1349814671
Categories
1868 births
1932 deaths
English trade unionists
Labour Party (UK) councillors

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