Jack Owen (trade unionist)

Jack Owen (c.1890 22 October 1983) was a British trade unionist.

He should not be confused with Jack Owen (1887-1957) who was also a British trade unionist.[1]

Born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Owen worked as a blastfurnaceman in a foundry for twenty-five years. He joined the National Union of Blastfurnacemen, Ore Miners, Coke Workers and Kindred Trades (NUB), and began working full-time for the union in 1937.[2]

In 1948, Owen was elected as general secretary of the NUB, and also to the General Council of the Trades Union Congress. He retired in 1953,[2] and wrote Ironmen, a history of the union.[3]

Owen died at the age of 93 in 1983.[2]

References

  1. Compendium of Communist Biography, Graham Stevenson, extracted 9 Nov 2016
  2. 1 2 3 Trades Union Congress, Report of the 1983 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.356
  3. Jack Eaton and Colin Gill, Jack Eaton, Colin Gill, p.137
Trade union offices
Preceded by
Ambrose Callighan
General Secretary of the National Union of Blastfurnacemen
1948 1953
Succeeded by
Joseph O'Hagan
Preceded by
Ambrose Callighan and Lincoln Evans
Iron, Steel and Minor Metal Trades representative on the General Council of the TUC
1948 1953
With: Lincoln Evans
Succeeded by
Harry Douglass and Joseph O'Hagan
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