VILLAGE LAD IS NOW LEADER OF 380,000
LONDUN. A niiui who st ari t'd work at the uge of 10, sweeping a shoj) lloor in Delph, ja Yorkshire village, for 3s a week, has beeonie the leader of Britain's 380,000 i shop assistants. | 11 e is Mr. Percy Cott rell, jiow 64, and | president of the new Union of Shop, \ Distributive and Allied workers — forinI ed with a capital of £1,250,000 out of | the morger of the Nationai Union of j Distributive and Allied Workers and j the Shop Assistants' Union. j Mr. Cottrell's new post is unpaid. j He will still live in Delph and work as | secretary for the local cooperative j society, who gave liim his iirst shop job in 1892. Shopkeepiug and trade tmions have been liis central interests all his working life. At. 17 he was braneh secretary of the Distributive Workers ' Union; at : 27 a divisional leader; at .37 chairmau ! of the northwest area. In 1942 he beeame.the union 's wartime prcsident.
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 November 1946, Page 3
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