William Harold Hutchinson

William Harold Hutchinson (1877 or 1878–19 May 1965) was a British trade unionist and Labour Party activist.

Educated to secondary school level, Hutchinson became active in the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, and was first elected to its Executive Council in 1913. The following year, he was also elected to the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, becoming its chairman in 1920. He stood for the party in Bolton at the 1924 UK general election, but was not successful.^[1]

Unusually for a trade union official, Hutchinson was a supporter of guild socialism,^[2] and was close to G. D. H. Cole and the Fabian Society.^[3]

In 1925, Hutchinson was elected to London County Council in Woolwich East, although he did not defend his seat at the following election. From 1930 to 1933, he was President of the renamed Amalgamated Engineering Union, and he served the union until his retirement in 1943. He then briefly worked as an organiser for the Industrial Orthopaedic Society, before retiring fully in 1946.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "HUTCHINSON, William H", Who Was Who
^ Ed. Norman Mackenzie, The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume III, p.91
^ Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism, p.181

Party political offices
Preceded by John McGurk	Chair of the Labour Party 1919–1920	Succeeded by Alexander Gordon Cameron
Trade union offices
Preceded by James Thomas Brownlie	President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union 1930–1933	Succeeded by John C. Little
Preceded by Arthur Deakin and Robert Openshaw	Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labour 1948 With: Herbert Bullock	Succeeded by Lincoln Evans and Tom Williamson

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[whowaswho-1] "HUTCHINSON, William H", Who Was Who

[2] Ed. Norman Mackenzie, The Letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Volume III, p.91

[3] Margaret Cole, The Story of Fabian Socialism, p.181

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