Fred Hague

Fred Garfield Hague (29 September 1911[1][2] – 12 November 1984) was a British trade unionist.

Hague was born in Bolton, Lancashire.[3] He worked as a cotton weaver and joined the Ashton-under-Lyne and District Weavers' Association in 1940.[4] He was elected as its general secretary by the mid-1950s,[5] and also became prominent in the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, to which it was affiliated.

Hague was elected as President of the Weavers' Amalgamation in 1964. He stood down in 1968 to serve a year as Chairman of the General Federation of Trade Unions, then in 1971 was elected as General Secretary of the Amalgamation.[6] He negotiated a merger with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers which formed the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, serving as its joint General Secretary for a year, then solo for a further year, when he retired.[4]

References

1939 England and Wales Register
England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
1911 England Census
Report of the 117th Trades Union Congress, p.390
Report of the 1956 Trades Union Congress
Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.190

Trade union offices
Preceded by G. Bannister	General Secretary of the Blackburn Weavers' Association 1946 – 1951	Succeeded by John Casson
Preceded by Lewis Wright	General Secretary of the Ashton Weavers' Association 1953 – 1971	Succeeded by Position abolished
Preceded by Ernest Thornton	President of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association 1964 – 1968	Succeeded by Hilda Unsworth
Preceded by F. C. Henry	Chairman of the General Federation of Trade Unions 1969	Succeeded by Jim Browning
Preceded by Harry Kershaw	General Secretary of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association 1971 – 1974	Succeeded by Position abolished
Preceded by New position	General Secretary of the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers 1974 – 1976 With: Joe King (1974 – 1975)	Succeeded by Jack Brown

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