Fred Bramley (1874 - 1925) was the second General Secretary of the British Trade Union Congress (TUC). Year 1874 ( MDCCCLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1925 ( MCMXXV) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The term General Secretary (alternatively First Secretary) denotes a leader of various unions parties churches or associations The Trades Union Congress (TUC is a national trade union centre, a federation of Trade unions in the United Kingdom, representing the majority of trade
Born in Pool near Otley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bramley worked as a cabinet maker and joined the Independent Labour Party. Pool in Wharfedale is a village in the Lower Wharfedale area 10 miles north of Leeds city centre and 2 miles east of the larger Otley. Otley is a Market town in the Metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Wharfe. The West Riding of Yorkshire is one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire, England. See Independent Labor Party for the Political party in Burundi, Independent Labour Group for the Irish party and Labour candidates Also active in the Clarion movement, he became an official in the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trade union, then TUC assistant secretary in 1917 and general secretary in 1923. He joined a delegation to the Soviet Union in 1924 and died, in office, in 1925. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
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| Preceded by C. W. Bowerman |
General Secretary of the TUC 1923–1925 |
Succeeded by Walter Citrine |
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