Fred Hague

Fred Garfield Hague (29 September 1911[1][2] – 12 November 1984) was a British trade unionist.

Hague was born in Bolton, Lancashire.[3] He worked as a cotton weaver and joined the Ashton-under-Lyne and District Weavers' Association in 1940.[4] He was elected as its general secretary by the mid-1950s,[5] and also became prominent in the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, to which it was affiliated.

Hague was elected as President of the Weavers' Amalgamation in 1964. He stood down in 1968 to serve a year as Chairman of the General Federation of Trade Unions, then in 1971 was elected as General Secretary of the Amalgamation.[6] He negotiated a merger with the National Union of Textile and Allied Workers which formed the Amalgamated Textile Workers' Union, serving as its joint General Secretary for a year, then solo for a further year, when he retired.[4]

He died in Oldham, Lancashire in 1984.[2]

References

1. 1939 England and Wales Register
2. England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
3. 1911 England Census
4. Report of the 117th Trades Union Congress, p.390
5. Report of the 1956 Trades Union Congress
6. Edwin Hopwood, A History of the Lancashire Cotton Industry and the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, p.190