Frank Chapple
Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple (8 August 1921 – 19 October 2004) was general secretary of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU), a leading British trade union.
Frank Chapple was born in the slum area of Hoxton, east London, in a flat above his father's shoe-repair shop. As was normal in most homes throughout the country at the time, there was no bath or running hot water in the Chapple home.[1] A Communist Party member early in his adult life, Chapple left the party after, and partly as a result of, the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Thereafter, he remained a forceful anti-communist.
He served as a member of the
References
- ^ Goodman, Geoffrey (22 October 2004). "Obituary: Lord Chapple". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ "No. 50030". The London Gazette. 8 February 1985. p. 1851.
- ^ "Union leader Lord Chapple dead". BBC News. 20 October 2004. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
Further reading
- Aikman, Calum, 'Frank Chapple: A Thoughtful Trade Union Moderniser', in Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain: Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century, eds. Peter Ackers and Alastair J. Reid (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 211-42.
- Chapple, Frank, Sparks Fly: A Trade Union Life (London: Michael Joseph, 1984).
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2001–4 volume, pp. 196–8.
- Lloyd, John, Light and Liberty: The History of the EETPU (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990)
External links
- BBC obituary
- Catalogue of Chapple's papers, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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