Julia Varley

Julia Varley, OBE (born 1871 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England; died 1952 in Yorkshire) was an English trade unionist and suffragette.[1]

She worked in a mill from the age of 12.[1] At 15, she became the secretary of the Bradford Weavers' and Textile Workers' Union.[2]

In 1909 Varley moved to Birmingham and established a branch of the National Federation of Women Workers at the Cadbury factory at Bournville.[1] She was also involved in the Cradley Heath women chainmakers' strike of 1910 and the Black Country strike of 1913, and later sat on the General Council of the Trade Union Congress.[1]

She was made OBE in 1931, and retired in 1938.[1] She continued to live in Birmingham, before returning to Yorkshire, where she died in 1952.[1]

In May 2013, she was commemorated by the erection of a blue plaque at her former home in Hay Green Lane, Bournville, by the Birmingham Civic Society.[1]

References

Mark, Metcalf (2015). Julia Varley - trade union organiser and fighter for women's rights. Online: UNITE EDUCATION.

Trade union offices
Preceded by Alfred Smalley and W. E. Harvey	Auditor of the Trades Union Congress 1910 With: John Cairns	Succeeded by W. E. Harvey and James E. Tattersall
Preceded by New position	Women Workers member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress 1921 – 1925 With: Margaret Bondfield (1921 – 1923) Mary Quaile (1923 – 1925)	Succeeded by Margaret Bondfield and Mary Quaile
Preceded by Margaret Bondfield and Mary Quaile	Women Workers member of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress 1926 – 1935 With: Margaret Bondfield (1926 – 1929) Anne Loughlin (1929 – 1935)	Succeeded by Florence Hancock and Anne Loughlin
Preceded by Mary Quaile	Chief Women's Officer of the Transport and General Workers' Union 1929 – 1936	Succeeded by Florence Hancock

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