About: Henry Boothman

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Henry Boothman (5 February 1875 – 25 April 1953) was a British trade union leader. Born in Clitheroe, Boothman moved with his family to Burnley when he was six years old, and he began working as a half-time in a local cotton mill when he was ten. He later became a minder at the mill, and relocated to Oldham when his parents died. In 1898, he began working full-time for the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association. From 1925 to 1929, he served on the . He also served as honorary treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Henry Boothman (5 February 1875 – 25 April 1953) was a British trade union leader. Born in Clitheroe, Boothman moved with his family to Burnley when he was six years old, and he began working as a half-time in a local cotton mill when he was ten. He later became a minder at the mill, and relocated to Oldham when his parents died. In 1898, he began working full-time for the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association. During World War I, Boothman served on the , and in 1916, he was elected as the General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. Around the same time, he won election as treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association and, in 1919, he was elected to the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), and continued on its replacement, the General Council. In 1922 Boothman was elected as a Labour Councillor in Oldham Council's St Pauls Ward for Labour, benefitting from a three way split in a Conservative, Liberal, Labor contest. He did nott contest the seat again in 1924. From 1925 to 1929, he served on the . He also served as honorary treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. Boothman served on the General Council of the TUC until 1936; during this time, he was asked to become chairman and President of the TUC, but he refused, on the grounds that this would require him to spend too much time away from the Lancashire base of his union. He served on the Cotton Board during World War II, but resigned from all his posts in 1943, after suffering from poor health. He died ten years later. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 51333961 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3394 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1113516144 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:before
dbp:title
  • Auditor of the Trades Union Congress (en)
  • Cotton Group member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress (en)
  • General Secretary of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:with
dbp:years
  • 1916 (xsd:integer)
  • 1917 (xsd:integer)
  • 1921 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • Henry Boothman (5 February 1875 – 25 April 1953) was a British trade union leader. Born in Clitheroe, Boothman moved with his family to Burnley when he was six years old, and he began working as a half-time in a local cotton mill when he was ten. He later became a minder at the mill, and relocated to Oldham when his parents died. In 1898, he began working full-time for the Oldham Operative Spinners' Association. From 1925 to 1929, he served on the . He also served as honorary treasurer of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Henry Boothman (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is dbp:before of
is dbp:with of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License