About Robert Gageby
Robert Gageby was a trade unionist.
Robert Gageby (died 27 December 1934) was an Irish trade union leader and politician.
Gageby grew up in the Shankill area of Belfast, and worked in a mill from the age of eleven. He became the secretary of the Flax Dressers' Trade Union, and was also elected to the Belfast Trades Council. In 1898, he was one of six trade unionists elected to the Belfast Corporation, with the backing of the Independent Labour Party.
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