. . "Turner, Ben, 1863-1942" . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b7iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 _:b010 . _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b8iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "Turner, Ben," . _:b010 _:b11iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b010 . _:b11iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b11iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "1863-1942" . "1001 $aTurner, Ben,$d1863-1942" . . . . . . . . . . "Turner, Ben, 1863-1942" . "1863-08-25"^^ . "1942-09-30"^^ . _:b31iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b31iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b31iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . . "Trades Union Congress" . _:b37iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b37iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b37iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "1922" . _:b37iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "1924" . _:b37iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . . "Great Britain. Parliament" . _:b47iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b47iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b47iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "1929" . _:b47iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "1931" . _:b47iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . . "Great Britain. Parliament" . _:b57iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b57iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b57iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b57iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "Yorkshire (England)" . . . "Labor union members" . . . "Politicians" . . . "English"@en . . . . . "no2014007780" . "(OCoLC)oca09661802" . _:b82iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b82iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b82iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "Short history of the General Union of Textile Workers, 1920:" . _:b82iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "title page (Ben Turner)" . _:b82iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "found" . _:b90iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b90iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b90iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences, 1994:" . _:b90iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "page 432 (Ben Turner (1863-1942) was educated at dame and at church schools and learned to be a weaver; in 1911 he was chairman of Britain's Labor party and in 1928 chairman of the Trades Union Congress; he entered Parliament (1922-1924; 1929-1931) and was secretary for mines (1929-1930); he became the general president of the National Union of Textile Workers and joint chairman of the Industrial Council for the Wollen Trade; he published his autobiography, About Myself (1930), two histories of the Yorkshire textile unions, and Collected Rhymes and Verses (1934); he was knighted in 1931)" . _:b90iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "found" . _:b98iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b98iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b98iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "The letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1978:" . _:b98iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "volume 3, page 91 (Ben Turner (1863-1942) was president of the National Union of Textile Workers; he became M.P. for Bately in 1922; in 1928, as chairman of the T.U.C., he signed a document calling for industrial peace; the co-signatory was Sir Alfred Mond (1868-1930), later Lord Melchett, the founder of Imperial Chemical Industries; the document became known as the \"Mood-Turner\" agreement)" . _:b98iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "found" . _:b106iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b106iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b106iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, January 16, 2014" . _:b106iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "(Turner, Sir Ben (1863-1942), trade unionist and politician, was born at Boothhouse, Austonley, a hamlet 2 miles from Holmfirth, Yorkshire, on 25 August 1863, the second son of Jonathan Turner and his wife, Emma Moorhouse; in 1882 Turner joined the Weavers' Union, established in 1881 in Huddersfield, and became actively involved in its committees and as a speaker from 1885; in 1887 Turner was victimized for his trade union work, spending a period unemployed before working as a clothing salesman and then an insurance agent; in August 1889 Turner moved to Leeds after being offered work there writing for the Yorkshire Factory Times; he combined writing for this and the Workman's Times, started in 1890, with trade union work; in 1889 he joined the Leeds Trades Council, which sent him as a delegate to the 1890 Trades Union Congress, and the Leeds Socialist Society; he moved to Batley in July 1891, was elected to the school board in 1892 and served until it was abolished in 1902; he was elected to Batley council in 1893 and, before he died, was an alderman and four times mayor (1914-1916 and 1934-1935); he was made a freeman in 1919; he also served as a councillor and alderman on West Riding county council from 1910 to 1942; he was appointed OBE (1917), CBE (1930), and knighted in 1931; Turner died at his home in Batley, Yorkshire on 30 September 1942)" . _:b106iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "found" . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "2014-01-21T00:00:00"^^ . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "new"^^ . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b114iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "2024-01-19T06:46:28"^^ . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 "revised"^^ . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 . _:b122iddOtlocdOtgovauthoritiesnamesno2014007780 .