Harry Kershaw (trade unionist)

Harry C. Kershaw (1906 or 1907 – 3 June 1985) was a British trade unionist.

Kershaw worked as a cotton weaver and became active in the Colne Weavers' Association (CWA). He was elected as Assistant Secretary of the CWA in 1945. The CWA was a member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, and Kershaw was elected as its full-time Second Assistant Secretary in 1947, becoming Assistant Secretary in 1960, then General Secretary in September 1968, spending his first month working alongside Lewis Wright.^[1] He retired in 1971.^[2]

References

^ Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.180
^ Report of the 1985 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.390

Trade union offices
Preceded by Lewis Wright	General Secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association 1968 – 1971	Succeeded by Fred Hague

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[1] Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.180

[2] Report of the 1985 Annual Trades Union Congress, p.390

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