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Jack Bailey (co-operator)

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161:, Bailey attended the Gwyn Ivor School until he was twelve, then worked for a cobbler before becoming a coal miner. However, in 1915 he suffered an accident which prevented him from working underground, and in 1917 he enlisted in the 397: 214:
Bailey retired as general secretary in 1962, but remained involved with the movement, serving on a committee set up to consider the merger of local co-operatives, and chairing the
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government to promote co-operative ownership. In 1955, his textbook,
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In 1919, Bailey returned to mining, becoming more involved with the
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Bailey took a job in 1925 as political secretary for the
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Index

Miskin, Mountain Ash
Glamorgan
Enfield, London
Ruskin College
Co-operator
Welsh
co-operative
Miskin
Mountain Ash
South Wales Borderers
South Wales Miners' Federation
Ruskin College
Central Labour College
Independent Labour Party
Kensington
Co-operative Party
Bradford
Bradford City Council
Labour Party
Co-operative Congress
knighthood
1965 New Year Honours




Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/48211
UK public library membership

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