Joseph Jones (trade unionist)
Joseph Jones (1891 – 1 April 1948) was a
Born in
In 1924, Jones contested the General Secretaryship of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain (MFGB) as the candidate of the union's right-wing, but he was narrowly defeated by the communist A. J. Cook.[4] From 1926 until 1931, Jones was on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, and from 1930 to 1938 he was the government's Coal Mine Reorganisation Commissioner.[1] Jones was elected as Vice President of the MFGB in 1932, then in 1934 became the union's President. He was one of two assessors during the 1937 enquiry into the Gresford disaster. During the enquiry both assessors disagreed with the commissioner's report and published their own reports as addenda.[5] He resigned as MFGB president in 1938 to join the Coal Commission, and in 1947 was appointed as advisor on social insurance to the National Coal Board.[1]
Jones was a
References
- ^ Robin Page Arnot, The Miners in Crisis and War, p.129
- ^ Peter Gibbon and David Steyne, Thurcroft: a village and the miners' strike - an oral history, p.15
- ^ Colliery Guardian, vol.141, p.979
- ^ David Howell, MacDonald's Party, p.119
- ^ Walker, Sir Henry, CBE LlD (Commissioner); Brass, John, MInstCE MIMinE (Assessor); Jones, Joseph, CBE JP (Assessor) (January 1937), Reports on the causes of and circumstances attending the explosion which occurred at Gresford Colliery, Denbigh on 22nd September, 1934, retrieved 21 September 2018 – via Durham Mining Museum
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "No. 33785". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 1931. pp. 1–16.
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