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Harry Kershaw (trade unionist)

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Died
  
3 June 1985

Harry C. Kershaw (1906 or 1907 – 3 June 1985) was a British trade unionist.

Kershaw worked as a cotton weaver and became active in the Colne Weavers' Association (CWA). He was elected as Assistant Secretary of the CWA in 1945. The CWA was a member of the Amalgamated Weavers' Association, and Kershaw was elected as its full-time Second Assistant Secretary in 1947, becoming Assistant Secretary in 1960, then General Secretary in September 1968, spending his first month working alongside Lewis Wright. He retired in 1971.

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