Assistant 134
08-16-2006, 04:00 PM
Thanks to Michael from my Yahoo Group..
In the pilot episode, as Peacock and others come on to the shop floor, Mr.
Lucas says "THEY ARE PROBABLY GOING TO TAKE IT TO VIC FEATHER." I would think most members under 40 will never have heard if him this brief biography I have got from the net.
Feather, Vic (1908?76) popular name of Victor (Grayson Hardie)
Feather, Baron Feather (of the City of Bradford)
Trade union leader, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
Educated at Hanson Grammar School, Bradford, he began work at 14,
and joined the Shopworkers' Union. Shop steward at 15, and chairman
of his branch committee at 21, he was a stirring speaker, and in
1937 joined the staff of the Trade Union Council, becoming assistant
secretary (1947?60), assistant general secretary (1960?9), and
general secretary (1969?73).
He fought the Conservative government's anti-union Industrial Relations bill (1972), and helped to form an independent advisory organization to settle labour disputes. He was president of the European Trade Union Conference (1973?4).
Feather was made a life peer in 1974. On retiring in 1973 he became
president of the European Trade Union Confederation, a governor of
the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Institute of
Economic and Social Research, and (1974) a member of the Arts Council
He was a likable man and a great orator I remember when we had the
cutbacks in public services a one of the many rallies in the 1970s
saying to the crowds if the government makes the cuts we will pay
more taxes to pay for it instead of the cheers he got BOOS this
marked his decline.
In the pilot episode, as Peacock and others come on to the shop floor, Mr.
Lucas says "THEY ARE PROBABLY GOING TO TAKE IT TO VIC FEATHER." I would think most members under 40 will never have heard if him this brief biography I have got from the net.
Feather, Vic (1908?76) popular name of Victor (Grayson Hardie)
Feather, Baron Feather (of the City of Bradford)
Trade union leader, born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England, UK.
Educated at Hanson Grammar School, Bradford, he began work at 14,
and joined the Shopworkers' Union. Shop steward at 15, and chairman
of his branch committee at 21, he was a stirring speaker, and in
1937 joined the staff of the Trade Union Council, becoming assistant
secretary (1947?60), assistant general secretary (1960?9), and
general secretary (1969?73).
He fought the Conservative government's anti-union Industrial Relations bill (1972), and helped to form an independent advisory organization to settle labour disputes. He was president of the European Trade Union Conference (1973?4).
Feather was made a life peer in 1974. On retiring in 1973 he became
president of the European Trade Union Confederation, a governor of
the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Institute of
Economic and Social Research, and (1974) a member of the Arts Council
He was a likable man and a great orator I remember when we had the
cutbacks in public services a one of the many rallies in the 1970s
saying to the crowds if the government makes the cuts we will pay
more taxes to pay for it instead of the cheers he got BOOS this
marked his decline.