About Len Smith
Lived 1879 – 1964 (aged 84–85). Len Smith was a British trade unionist.
Leonard Smith (1879 – 1964) was a British trade unionist and politician.
Smith joined the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives (NUBSO) in 1897, and became very active in the union. In 1905, he was one of a group of union members who marched to London in support of a fair wage clause being added to the contract to make boots for the British Army.
Smith was also active in politics, and was first elected to Long Buckby Parish Council in 1898. He took third place, with 18.9% of the vote. He also stood in the 1931 United Kingdom general election, in Stafford, taking second place with a 31.9% vote share.
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Who was Len Smith?
British trade unionist
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Len Smith was born in 1879.
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Len Smith died in 1964.
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Len Smith was a trade unionist.
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Len Smith was British.
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