Turner, Ben, 1863-1942

found: Short history of the General Union of Textile Workers, 1920:title page (Ben Turner)

found: From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: a dictionary of eponyms with biographies in the social sciences, 1994: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)

found: The letters of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1978: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)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, January 16, 2014(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)