About Robert Openshaw
Lived 1891 – 1962 (aged 70–71). Robert Openshaw was a British trade unionist.
Robert Openshaw (3 September 1891 – 6 November 1962) was a British trade unionist.
Born in Bolton, Openshaw was a keen cricketer, and once took all ten wickets in a Bolton Cricket League match. He moved to Crewe to find work, and became an engineer in the railway workshops there. He joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union and in 1930 was one of the youngest members to be elected to the union's executive council.
Openshaw represented the AEU on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party from 1940 to 1948, In the second ballot, Openshaw received 49,804 votes (60%) compared to the 33,137 polled by his left wing opponent Claude Berridge, who was a member of the Communist Party.
Openshaw served as AEU President from May 1954 until his retirement in September 1956.
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Who was Robert Openshaw?
British trade unionist
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Robert Openshaw was born in 1891.
When did Robert Openshaw die?
Robert Openshaw died on 6 November 1962.
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Robert Openshaw was a trade unionist.
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Robert Openshaw was British.
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