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Archibald MacKellar

Scottish trade unionist

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Archibald MacKellar was a British trade unionist.

Archibald Duncan MacKellar (18 October 1890 – ) was a Scottish trade unionist, who served as president of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC).

MacKellar was born in Govan and worked as a draughtsman at John Brown's shipyard in Glasgow. In 1913, he was a founding members of the Glasgow branch of the Association of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen (AESD). He rapidly became one of the union's leading figures, in 1918 chairing its committee on the Whitley Reports. He served on the union's executive committee for many years, and was president of the union for 1929-1930.

In 1938, MacKellar was appointed as the AESD's full-time organiser for the London area, then later moved to cover Scotland and Northern Ireland. In this new role, he became prominent in the Scottish Trades Union Congress, serving on its general council from 1947, as its fraternal delegate to the Irish Trades Union Congress in 1951, and as its chair for 1952-1953. He retired in 1955.

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Archibald Duncan MacKellar

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Scottish trade unionist

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Archibald MacKellar was a trade unionist.

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· Wikipedia: Archibald MacKellar

· Wikidata: Q60544948

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