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    William Paterson (3 January 1843 – 17 December 1906) was a Scottish trade unionist and fire officer. Born in Elgin, Paterson followed his father in becoming...
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  • Constitution William Paterson (Michigan politician), Mayor of Flint, Michigan William Paterson (trade unionist) (1843–1906), Scottish trade unionist and fire...
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  • William or Bill Patterson may refer to: William Paterson (New Jersey lawyer) (1745-1806), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court William...
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    William Paterson Templeton (8 November 1876 – 4 July 1938) was a Scottish Unionist Party politician. A native of Camlachie, Glasgow, Templeton was a wood...
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  • York Don Paterson (born 1963), Scottish poet, writer and musician Emma Paterson (1848–1886), English feminist and trade unionist Fred Paterson (1897–1977)...
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    Skowhegan textile strike, the 1912 Lawrence textile strike, and the 1913 Paterson silk strike. After the strike, IWW member and songwriter Joe Hill satirized...
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  • Reginald Birch (7 June 1914 – 2 June 1994) was a British communist and trade unionist, aligning with Maoism later in his career. Born in Kilburn, London,...
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    daughter of Keir and Lilian Hardie. Hardie was then a prominent mining trade unionist, and he later became the first leader of the Labour Party. Keir believed...
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    William MacQueen (14 January 1875 – 9 November 1908) was a British anarchist, trade unionist, newspaper editor and public speaker. MacQueen was born on...
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  • The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in...
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  • James C. Welsh (2 June 1880 – 4 November 1954) was a miner, trade unionist, novelist and Scottish Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament...
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  • Baron Geddes of Epsom, CBE (1 March 1897 – 2 May 1983) was a British trade unionist. Born in Camberwell, London, his parents were active socialists in the...
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    Jock Garden (category Australian trade unionists)
    Garden (13 August 1882 – 31 December 1968) was an Australian clergyman, trade unionist and politician. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of...
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    Edward Carson (category Irish Unionist Party MPs)
    controlled by Unionist interests which supported Joseph Chamberlain's Imperial Preference views. The Cadbury family were Liberal supporters of free trade and had...
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  • Sol Stetin (category Trade unionists from New Jersey)
    Pabianice, now in Poland, when Stetin was 10, he and his family emigrated to Paterson, New Jersey. He left school in the ninth grade, becoming an amateur boxer...
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    March 16, 1911. Speech of William D. Haywood on the Case of Ettor and Giovannitti, 1912. Bill Haywood Remembers the 1913 Paterson Strike With Drops of Blood...
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    Mary Macarthur (category Trade unionists from Glasgow)
    gain the franchise) and was a leading trades unionist. She was the general secretary of the Women's Trade Union League and was involved in the formation...
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  • Carmont, High Court Judge (born 1890) 12 August – Willie Gallacher, trade unionist, activist and communist MP (born 1881) 5 September – Tom Johnston, Labour...
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    the working-class financial reformer Thomas Briggs, writing in the trade unionist newspaper The Bee-Hive, the manifesto relied on "a much higher authority...
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    development of a type of air-raid shelter, and engaged William Paterson to design it. Paterson worked with his co-director, Oscar Carl (Karl) Kerrison...
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    Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (category National trade union centers of the United States)
    more delegates from trade associations and the United States Greenback Party attended than unionists. A resolution against trade unionism was actually...
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    Workers' International Industrial Union (category Breakaway trade unions)
    Revolutionary Industrial Union headquartered in Detroit in 1908 by radical trade unionists closely associated with the Socialist Labor Party of America, headed...
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    Paterson Simons & Co, which traded between London, the Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States. He became an acknowledged expert on trade with...
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  • Charles J. Hendley (category Trade unionists from Pennsylvania)
    Hendley helped organize a local of the American Federation of Teachers in Paterson, New Jersey. In 1920, he taught labor classes for Pennsylvania's State...
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  • Lords (1997–2023). 10 April – Richard Rosser, Baron Rosser, 79, British trade unionist and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 2004). 14 April...
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    Cyrille Adoula (13 September 1921 – 24 May 1978) was a Congolese trade unionist and politician. He was the prime minister of the Republic of the Congo...
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    Liz Truss (category Presidents of the Board of Trade)
    changed his mind on the morning of the reshuffle. Her predecessor Owen Paterson "stormed out" of Cameron's Commons study when told he was to be dismissed;...
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    during his imprisonment for the seditious libel case, Defoe wrote to William Paterson, the London Scot and founder of the Bank of England and part instigator...
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    stood in 573 seats. Dozens of minor parties stood in this election. The Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition stood 135 candidates and was the only minor...
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    Conservative Party. They were founded in 1965 out of the merger of the Scottish Unionist Party, which had been a dominant political force in Scotland for much of...
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