Jack Tanner (trade unionist)
Tanner, first on left top row, in a World War II patriotic poster
Frederick John Shirley Tanner trade unionist.
Born in
syndicalist, active in the Industrial Syndicalist Education League, and jointly chaired the First International Syndicalist Congress.[1]
During
John S. Clarke, Helen Crawfurd, Williie Gallacher, Wlliam McLaine, JT Murphy, Sylvia Pankhurst,[2] Tom Quelch, Dave Ramsay and Marjory Newbold, attended the Second Congress of the Communist International. He did join the Communist Party of Great Britain but left after only eight months, though he remained close to colleagues who stayed in the party.[1]
Tanner increasingly devoted his time to the trade union movement, and was elected President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union in 1939, serving until 1953 and promoting economic planning in the engineering industry. Increasingly associated with the right-wing of the union, he served as President of the Trades Union Congress in 1954, and supported the anti-communist Industrial and Research Information Services from 1956.[1]
References
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65957. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- OCLC 1196193442.