David Gilmour (trade unionist)
David R. Gilmour (1861 – September 1926) was a
trade unionist
.
Born at
Scottish Miners' Federation for much of the period.[2]
Gilmour was active in the wider labour movement, and stood unsuccessfully for the
Scottish Workers Representation Committee at the 1906 general election in Falkirk Burghs. However, the following year, he was elected to Hamilton Burgh Council, serving in later years for the Labour Party.[3] In 1912, he served on the Royal Commission on Housing.[4] He served on the political committee of the Scottish Trades Union Congress, and was its president in 1916.[5]
Gilmour was a supporter of British involvement in
Ministry of National Service, an issue which was divisive among members of his union.[2][4] In 1917, a referendum among members of his union required him to resign this position,[6] but he was soon voted out of his union and subsequently broke all his links with the LMCU.[2] He also left the Labour Party, and stood at the 1918 general election in Hamilton for the rival National Democratic and Labour Party,[7] taking third place with 25.9% of the vote.[8]
After the war, Gilmour was made an
UK miners' strike.[2]
References
- ^ The Reformers' Year Book (1905), p.36
- ^ Glasgow Herald, 13 September 1926, p.11
- ^ John H. M. Laslett, Colliers Across the Sea, p.179
- ^ a b "Former Miners' Leader - Late Mr David Gilmour", The Scotsman, 14 September 1926
- ^ Scottish Trades Union Congress: Annual Report 1984, p.v
- ^ John H. M. Laslett, Colliers Across the Sea, p.273
- Glasgow Herald, 27 November 1918, p.8
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920