Alfred Roberts

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Person.png Alfred Roberts  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(trade unionist)
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Born30 November 1897
Died18 November 1963 (Age 65)
NationalityUK
British trade unionist who attended the 1958 Bilderberg as ILO/Vice chair

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In office
1954 - 1960

Alfred Roberts was a British trade unionist who attended the 1958 Bilderberg meeting.

Trade union career

Roberts was born in Bolton, his father being a coal carter. He studied at the Chalfont Street Council School, but left at thirteen to work in the office of a builders' company, before moving to work in the cotton industry. After a break during World War I, during which he was in the Royal Navy, he became active in the National Association of Card, Blowing and Ring Room Operatives (Cardroom Amalgamation), and by the age of thirty was the union's Preston secretary.[1]

In 1935, Roberts was elected as General Secretary of the Cardroom Amalgamation. In 1948, he was appointed to the Cotton Board, and in 1950/51 he was President of the Trades Union Congress. In 1952 he was Trades Union Congress representative to the American Federation of Labor.

He was awarded the CBE, an honorary master's degree by the University of Manchester, and was knighted in 1955. He was a vice-chairman of the International Labour Organization from 1954 until 1960, while, in 1956, he joined the board of directors of the Bank of England.[2]

Roberts retired from his general secretaryship in 1962, but he continued to acquire new positions on committees, including becoming a governor of the Commonwealth Institute and a member of the Nationalised Industries Advisory Committee. However, he died in 1963.[2]


 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/195813 September 195815 September 1958Buxton
UK
United Kingdom
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References

  1. "Sir Alfred Robert", The Times, November 1963
  2. a b "ROBERTS, Sir Alfred", Who Was Who
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