Kelley was an early proponent of the Labour movement putting forward candidates for election. He became vice-president of the Labour Electoral Association in 1889, and presided at the Labour Electoral Congress held in Hanley in 1890.[2][3] He was elected to the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1892.[4]
He held the office of secretary of a number of bodies: the Manchester Trades and Labour Council, the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Trade Councils, the Manchester and District Board of Conciliation and the National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation.[1]
george, davy, kelley, 1848, december, 1911, british, trades, unionist, labour, politician, kelley, 1900skelley, born, ruskington, lincolnshire, 1848, became, apprenticed, lithographic, printing, trade, york, following, apprenticeship, worked, printer, london, . George Davy Kelley 1848 18 December 1911 was a British trades unionist and Labour politician Kelley in the mid 1900sKelley was born in Ruskington Lincolnshire in 1848 He became apprenticed to the lithographic printing trade in York Following his apprenticeship he worked as a printer in London Birmingham Leeds and Bradford He moved to Manchester to become general secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers formed in 1880 1 Kelley was an early proponent of the Labour movement putting forward candidates for election He became vice president of the Labour Electoral Association in 1889 and presided at the Labour Electoral Congress held in Hanley in 1890 2 3 He was elected to the parliamentary committee of the Trades Union Congress in 1892 4 He held the office of secretary of a number of bodies the Manchester Trades and Labour Council the Lancashire and Cheshire Federation of Trade Councils the Manchester and District Board of Conciliation and the National Printing and Kindred Trades Federation 1 In 1902 he travelled to New York City as part of Alfred Moseley s Commission of Inquiry into the organisation of Labour 5 Two years later as vice chairman of the National Committee of Organised Labour he campaigned for the introduction of a universal old age pension 6 At the 1906 general election he was selected as one of the Labour Representation Committee candidates and was elected as Member of Parliament for Manchester South West unseating the sitting Conservative MP Due to ill health he retired from parliament at the next general election in January 1910 He died in Manchester in December 1911 aged 63 1 References EditLeigh Rayment s Historical List of MPs a b c Obituary Mr G D Kelley The Times 19 December 1911 p 9 Labour Electoral Society The Times 25 April 1889 p 13 Labour Electoral Congress The Times 8 April 1890 p 8 Trade Union Congress The Times 12 September 1892 p 4 Mr Moseley s Commissions of Inquiry The Times 28 August 1902 p 6 Election Intelligence The Times 5 November 1904 Wikimedia Commons has media related to George Davy Kelley External links EditHansard 1803 2005 contributions in Parliament by George Davy KelleyParliament of the United KingdomPreceded byWilliam Johnson Galloway Member of Parliament for Manchester South West1906 January 1910 Succeeded byArthur ColefaxTrade union officesPreceded byNew position General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Lithographic Printers1879 1911 Succeeded byThomas SproatPreceded byPeter Shorrocks Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council1883 1906 Succeeded byTom FoxPreceded byThomas Ashton and John Wilson Auditor of the Trades Union Congress1885 With Joseph Hope Succeeded byT J Elvidge and Ben PickardPreceded byNew position General Secretary of the Printing and Kindred Trades Federation1891 1911 Succeeded byA E HolmesPreceded byCharles Harrap General Secretary of the International Federation of Lithographers and Kindred Trades1900 1907 Succeeded byOtto Sillier This article about a Labour Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom MP representing an English constituency is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte This biographical article about a trade unionist in the United Kingdom is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title George Davy Kelley amp oldid 1083224134, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
