Albert E. Fox

Albert E. Fox (1858 – 22 March 1914) was a UK trade unionist and Labour Representation Committee politician.

Trade unionist Fox joined the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen in 1886 and for a number of years was ASLEF Branch Secretary at Mexborough, Yorkshire. By 1897 ASLEF's Yorkshire district had elected Fox to the union's Executive Committee and in April 1900 the executive committee elected Fox as its president.

ASLEF's Rules stated, "The General Secretary shall be elected by the votes of the majority of the whole of the members of the Society".

Fox supported ASLEF's continuation as an independent craft union. In 1900 ASLEF had rejected a proposal from the industrial union for UK railway workers, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, that ASLEF and the ASRS should merge. Instead ASLEF proposed a Federation, which was enacted in 1903. whereas the ASRS claimed the same victory proved that "one railway union will prove to be most beneficial for all railwaymen".

Political candidate In 1903 ASLEF affiliated to the Labour Representation Committee He polled 4,030 votes, In January 1908 Lawson Walton died and in the ensuing Leeds South by-election Fox was again the LRC candidate. but he persisted with his duties. He led ASLEF through the 1911 national railway strike but by 1912 he was very pale and clearly unwell. Because of his illness, in the early part of 1914 there were only two days on which Fox managed to come to work. He died on Sunday 22 March 1914.