About Danny McGarvey
Lived 1919 – 1977 (aged 57). Danny McGarvey was a trade unionist.
Sir Daniel McGarvey, CBE (16 September 1919 – 26 April 1977) was a Scottish trade unionist.
McGarvey was born in Clydebank and attended Our Holy Redeemer School, then St Patrick's High School, Dumbarton. At the age of fifteen, he began working as an apprentice caulker.
He became active in the United Society of Boilermakers and Iron and Steel Shipbuilders, being elected to its general council in 1951, and in 1954 to the executive council of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. From 1958 to 1965, he served on the National Executive Council of the Labour Party. In 1964, he was elected as General Secretary of the renamed Amalgamated Society of Boilermakers, Shipwrights, Blacksmiths and Structural Workers.
Honours McGarvey received the CBE in 1970, and was knighted shortly before his death.
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British trade unionist
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Danny McGarvey was born on 16 September 1919.
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Danny McGarvey died on 26 April 1977.
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Danny McGarvey was a trade unionist.
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